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. Read by Sam Dale and Clare Corbett.Certain ghost stories have stood the test of time, entertaining and unsettling audiences over the course of decades or centuries. Unabridged reading of Henry James’ spine-tingling novella about a governess and two children on a haunted estate. BBC Sounds Classic Stories: The Turn of the Screw For an immersive 3D experience listen on headphones. This drama has been recorded in binaural. She soon becomes convinced that forces of evil want to take possession of the children but her struggle to protect them from harm leads to a devastating conclusion. The Turn of the Screw (adapted by Linda Marshall Griffiths) Ī governess is sent to care for two orphaned children in a remote country estate. The children, Miles and Flora, seem almost too angelic to be true at first, but who is that man with curly red hair and sharp eyes that keeps staring at Miles, and why is Flora getting out of bed at night to look at a mysterious woman in the garden? Cathy Sara (whom you may remember as Lauren Walsh from The Archers, one of the women who had the misfortune of being two-timed by Tom Archer) plays the governess who may have stumbled upon some evil ghostly forces at work or, alternatively, could easily be a psychologically damaged woman who poses a potentially terrible danger to her charges. The story centers on a young governess, sent to a country house to look after a London gentleman's nephew and niece. Henry James's novel must be one of the scariest stories of all time, so close the curtains and get ready for the hairs on your arms to stand on end in this dramatization by Neville Teller.

The Turn of the Screw (adapted by Neville Teller) What evil influences the two beautiful children at Bly? Their new governess is both fascinated and repelled in this classic Victorian tale of horror. The Turn of the Screw (adapted by John Tydeman) In FLAC (lossless) whenever possible, otherwise in high quality mp3. Four BBC Radio adaptations of Henry James’ classic ghost story.

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