The Turn of the Screw, written by Henry James, is a psychological thriller that could also fall within the 'ghost story' tradition.
The Turn of the Screw is complex in that the 'action' is several degrees removed from the reader. A man named Douglas reads a manuscript written by his sister's governess. The manuscript forms the basis of the story, which is thus told from the governess's perspective. The narrator, however, belongs to the group of people to whom Douglas reads the manuscript. He transcribes Douglas's tale years after Douglas reads it aloud. The narrator's transcript, not the…
