Classical Gas: Henry James's THE TURN OF THE SCREW (1898): RGBIB 360

[@martinsFILMS13]

Love the Shirt !!!

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks! Me, too!

[@truepenny2514]

Love your t-shirt!!

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks, I made it myself! (Not really.)

[@apoetreadstowrite]

I love your appreciation of James' 'ambience', you really helped me to think more about this, thank you for giving me some focus.

[@apoetreadstowrite]

I'm really excited to have discovered your channel, we share many obsessions, so I'm really keen to follow your bookish adventures. I'm about to upload a video of my own on this novel (hence my curiosity to watch your take). I am also new to horror & Gothic, but am enjoying it. I've spent the last few weeks with Shirley Jackson - very enjoyable. Thanks for a very engaging video.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Welcome to the bathtub, Poet! We love Jackson here in the bathtub, and wrote a couple essays about her in our Bathtub crossover book... stay safe. s

[@apoetreadstowrite]

@@Scottmbradfield: Thanks .

[@pragjyotishbhuyangogoi8363]

One of my favorite books, ever. Impossible to put it down once you start reading.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Hey Prag! Get ready for another US Administration!

[@donaldkelly3983]

Turn of the Screw is one of my favorite James stories and ghost story in general. Henry James the playwright was, politely, a failure.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Yeah I can believe that, if his stage characters talk like his book ones there must have been a lot of people heading for the snack bar... s

[@tressor904]

Enjoying more of the Henry James content! I feel Robert Aickman must've liked this book, it seems like the forerunner to his ambiguous style. Have you read any Walter De La Mare, Scott?

[@Scottmbradfield]

I have not read de la Mare but my old friend John Clute always told me I should, and I even had a couple firsts around that I eventually sold... he's good?

[@tressor904]

@@Scottmbradfield Oh very much, he's much a descendant of James himself in his work, Greene was also a big fan, he has a really good essay on him and come to think of it, he had several excellent essays on the Master himself too.

[@Scottmbradfield]

@@tressor904 Cool. Greene always had great taste (like us!)

[@Scottmbradfield]

@@tressor904 I seem to recall the excessively productive ST Joshi was working on some new volumes of de la Mare at Hippocampus Press, and maybe Centipede Press has a volume?

[@Scottmbradfield]

No I can't find those. I'll write Joshi and ask, I recall some problem about reprinting his stuff in modern editions...

[@stewarti7192]

I really enjoyed this, in contrast to the only other James I've attempted, The Ambassadors, which I hated and gave up on quite early.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Yeah that so-called "major phase" can sometimes feel like a major pain in the ass, tho I'm mellowing towards James a bit and may try those late ones again...with. bourbon! s

[@TimMcLain-rf3vj]

I love the cover art on this edition, by a painter named Grimshaw (can that be right?) The Turn of the Screw and The Beckoning Fair One are two of my favorite long ghost stories.

[@joebeamish]

I loved this one.

[@kevinhelfenbein5893]

Hi Scott, For some real fun, check out Michael Winner's movie prequel to The Turn of the Screw, The Nightcomers (1971) in which we see the goings on with Quint, Miss Jessel, and the children. Who plays Quint? Marlon Brando!

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks, Kevin. Yeah I did see that, pretty weird sex scenes... the James story suggests they were up to the weirdest you could imagine and the imagined...

[@croinkix]

Hey Scott shaman of all pointless reading! With your affinity for ghost stories, why not give give Peace a chance? I know Gene Wolfe's novels havent quite done it for you as opposed to his short stories. Glad Turn of The Screw is one of James' stories that you like.

[@Scottmbradfield]

@@croinkix I should o wise perceiver of pointless reading, I heard it’s great, and it’s on my shelf! S