The Turn of the Screw

At a Christmas country-house party, Douglas reads his sister’s former governess’s account of her own first posting, which is now transcribed by the unnamed narrator. The governess’s first-person narrative relates how she reacted to apparitions, apparently of former servants, at Bly, which seemed to be enticing the two children Flora and Miles into danger. Despite her good intentions, Flora was driven away with the housekeeper, Mrs Grose, and Miles died when confronted by the governess.