Turn of the Screw: Chapters 1-5 Summary
Turn of the Screw: Chapters 6-10 Summary

In this post, we introduce the first part of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw: Chapters 1-5 (1898). It is a gothic novella that is about a very peculiar haunting at Bly Manor. Meanwhile, the reader is left to question the narrator’s motives and reliability throughout the novella. This is a classic of the ghost story genre, so reading it and understanding it is crucial to writing good ghost stories.