The Turn of the Screw
A manuscript read out at Christmas: a parson's daughter takes her first post as governess to two orphans at a remote Essex house, on condition that she never trouble their uncle. She sees a man on the tower and a woman by the lake, learns who the dead valet and governess were, and becomes convinced the children see them too and will not say. The most argued-over ghost story in English, since the evidence for the ghosts is hers alone.
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