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The Haunting of Bly Manor: Why Henry James’s Eerie Tale Still Inspires So Many Adaptations – Gizmodo Australia

New on Netflix, The Haunting of Bly Manor is the latest in a long line of adaptations of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) that began in 1954 with Benj…

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New on Netflix, The Haunting of Bly Manor is the latest in a long line of adaptations of Henry Jamess The Turn of the Screw (1898) that began in 1954 with Benjamin Brittens opera. Since then, there have been more than 25 others. Adaptors enduring fascination with Jamess irresponsible little fiction can be summed up in a word: ambiguity.
It is the story of a young governess who comes to suspect that her deceased predecessor, Miss Jessel, and the late valet Peter Quint, are exerting a continued i…

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