Classic·Gothic Fiction
Legends
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Step into the dark, haunting world of Spanish Romanticism with Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s legendary tales of ghosts and the supernatural.
Shared themes:Gothic horrorGhosts
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1898 · Complete work
The Turn of the Screw
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“A young governess arrives at a secluded country estate, only to find the children under a terrifying, spectral influence.”
Hired to care for two orphaned siblings at Bly, a secluded English country house, a youthful governess quickly senses an encroaching evil. Flora and Miles seem angelic, yet terrifying apparitions begin to manifest across the grounds. Convinced that the ghosts of former servants seek to corrupt her charges, she vows to protect them at all costs. But as the boundary between reality and obsession blurs, the true nature of the horror remains agonizingly uncertain. Henry James crafts a masterwork of psychological terror where the greatest dread lies in what remains unsaid.
27 Episodes · Classic
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Episode 01
~8 min
Episode 1
“He took no notice of her; he looked at me, but as if, instead of me, he saw what he spoke of.”
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Episode 03
~9 min
Chapter I
“This convenience, I was told, had been ordered, and I found, toward the close of the June afternoon, a commodious fly in waiting for me.”
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Episode 04
~7 min
Chapter II
“The first day had been, on the whole, as I have expressed, reassuring; but I was to see it wind up in keen apprehension.”
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Episode 05
~10 min
Chapter III
“Her thus turning her back on me was fortunately not, for my just preoccupations, a snub that could check the growth of our mutual esteem.”
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Episode 06
~11 min
Chapter IV
“It was not that I didn’t wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was rooted as deeply as I was shaken.”
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Episode 08
~8 min
Chapter VI · I
“It was the idea, the second movement, that led me straight out, as I may say, of the inner chamber of my dread.”
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Episode 09
~6 min
Chapter VI · II
“We were on the edge of the lake, and, as we had lately begun geography, the lake was the Sea of Azof.”
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Episode 10
~7 min
Chapter VII
““Oh, for the effect and the feeling, she might have been as close as you!””
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Episode 11
~10 min
Chapter VIII
“Therefore you might perfectly have made the claim for him if you had not, as it happened, seen an exception to take.”
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Episode 12
~10 min
Chapter IX
“I waited and waited, and the days, as they elapsed, took something from my consternation.”
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Episode 13
~9 min
Chapter X
““Well, you know, I thought someone was”—she never blanched as she smiled out that at me.”
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Episode 14
~7 min
Chapter XI
“It would tax his invention, certainly, and I felt, this time, over his real embarrassment, a curious thrill of triumph.”
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Episode 15
~6 min
Chapter XII
“If on either of these last nights you had been with either child, you would clearly have understood.”
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Episode 16
~10 min
Chapter XIII
“There were things enough, taking one with another, to chatter about, if one went very fast and knew by instinct when to go round.”
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Episode 17
~7 min
Chapter XIV
““Look here, my dear, you know,” he charmingly said, “when in the world, please, am I going back to school?””
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Episode 18
~6 min
Chapter XV
“I walked round the church, hesitating, hovering; I reflected that I had already, with him, hurt myself beyond repair.”
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Episode 21
~6 min
Chapter XVIII
“The next day, after lessons, Mrs. Grose found a moment to say to me quietly: “Have you written, miss?””
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Episode 22
~7 min
Chapter XIX
““Oh, thank you!” my friend cried, planted so firm that, taking it in, I went straight on without her.”
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Episode 23
~9 min
Chapter XX
““She’s there, you little unhappy thing—there, there, there, and you see her as well as you see me!””
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Episode 24
~10 min
Chapter XXI
““She persists in denying to you that she saw, or has ever seen, anything?””
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Episode 25
~7 min
Chapter XXII
“If I had counted on what it would give me to find myself alone with Miles, I speedily perceived, at least, that it would give me a measure.”
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Episode 26
~7 min
Chapter XXIII
““Yet even though we have them,” he returned, still with his hands in his pockets and planted there in front of me, “they don’t much count, do they?””
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Episode 27
~10 min
Chapter XXIV
“I have likened it to a sentinel, but its slow wheel, for a moment, was rather the prowl of a baffled beast.”
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Public-domain work (1898). Text: Project Gutenberg #209. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more