![]() ![]() The 1961 film in question is considered by many to be a masterpiece of the genre - including no less a film buff than Martin Scorsese. ![]() “It’s been really exciting to have this much bigger canvas, because you’re not going to do better than The Innocents anyway,” he told Total Film. The latest high-profile adaptation of it came as part of Mike Flanagan’s Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor, though Flanagan has pointed out that his series encompasses a host of James’s ghost stories rather than just The Turn of the Screw. In a new essay at Literary Hub, Adam Scovell (himself no stranger to compelling uncanny fiction) explores James’s novella and zeroes in on the qualities that have led to it being adapted in so many different ways over the years. ![]() Of these, there’s a case to be made for Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw to be the most ominous and compelling of them all. In the case of some narratives, their power doesn’t just encompass words on a page instead, these stories have also been the basis for memorable adaptations over a host of different mediums, from stage to screen and beyond. Certain ghost stories have stood the test of time, entertaining and unsettling audiences over the course of decades or centuries. ![]()
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