The Turn of the Screw Author:Henry James One evening, while sitting quietly at dinner, Henry James' father saw the Devil. Along with a wealth of leisure and a great legacy of intellectual sensibility, he passed on to his son the sense of a New England demonic horror which no amount of European sophistication would exorcize. It is in The Turn of The Screw that James treated this "great... more » scare" most directly. For "The Dvil" here is in forceful possession --of whom, the governess or her innocent wards, it is difficult to say, but his presence is a palpable terror.« less