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The Turn of the Screw, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the y... »
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The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
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Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nu... »
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classics)
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The Turn of the Screw and Washington Square are novellas. Daisy Miller is intermediate in length while The Beast in the Jungle and The Jolly Corner are short stories. All five are among the best short fiction of Henry James.
In the introduction Professor R. W. B. Lewis only marginally discusses the literary merit and artistry of these five... »
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The Lottery and Other Stories
My favourite living author of the offbeat, macabre story is Joyce Carol Oates. This prolific woman, who can seemingly pen an entire novel while having a ... »
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The Dark Descent
If you could have only one anthology of dark stories, this would be the one to have. Having observed that "fans of horror fiction most often restrict thei... »
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The Lottery and Other Stories
Being assigned to read 'The Lottery: And Other Stories' as part of a university english course, I read most of it in the course of a day. The nightmares ... »
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Witches' Brew
Witches' Brew is a dense literary anthology broken into three chapters. The first chapter Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Wicked Witch takes it name ... »
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