
The Turn of the Screw
Author: Henry James
Narrator: AI Voice Arthur Lane
Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Gates of Imagination
Published: 08/21/2026
Categories: Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Psychological
Synopsis
At first Bly seems idyllic. Flora is enchanting, Miles is expelled from school for a reason nobody will name, and the housekeeper is kind but evasive. Then the governess sees a man on the tower. Later, a woman in black across the lake. The servants who describe them are certain of the identification and equally certain that both people are dead.
She becomes convinced the children see them too, and are concealing it. What follows is either a rescue or a persecution, and the novella never tells you which.
The most argued-over ghost story in English literature: are the apparitions real, or is the narrator destroying two children to save them from her own imagination? A century of readers has failed to settle it.