5/20/2023 0 Comments Ghost stories by henry james![]() ![]() I really appreciated this article at Conceptual Fiction for arguing that Henry James can be both a literary giant and a horror writer. If you’ve ready absolutely anything by James, you’ll notice that he really loves ambiguity, multi-faceted perspectives, and different interpretations of character motives regarding TOTS specifically, James is both writing a straightforward ghost story and inviting us to question the heck out of it, but he isn’t rejecting either approach, and neither should we. But he wrote more than one ghost story like TOTS, and since the literary world loves to argue about everything, often it is argued that his ghost stories aren’t “horror” or “genre” stories at all they’re simply literary metaphors. ![]() He’s a literary giant, and is treated like one: fair enough. Henry James wrote a lot he’s best known for his novels and short novels like TOTS, but also for big literary bricks like Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors. me, thinking thoughts about Henry James while watching you play I will give a SPOILER WARNING for any outgoing links. This is a post for our Turn of the Screw (TOTS) readalong and will not contain any spoilers. ![]()
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