The Books: Read by Candlelight or Flashlight – E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Mademoiselle de Scuderi) (read by flashlight, in bed) A spooky mystery set in the 1680s, in the Paris of Louis XIV. Mlle. de Scuderi – an elderly gentlewoman who is in the confidence of the king and his maitres...
Synopsis: Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look afte...
Or the translation of my book was terrible or the writing is off. This is a short book, a bit more than 100 pages but it felt like it was 300 pages. Took me forever to finish it. It is not a horror book, but it is spooky. Mainly because the narrator is completely nuts, and the children are kinda cre...
I was really excited to read this since I love ghost stories, but it was very disappointing. Almost nothing happens, other than a crazy governess ranting through the whole book. Then there is no conclusion. Just an abrupt ending. This just wasn't for me.
“No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!”Screen shot from the 1961 version of The Innocents based on the James short story.A governess is hired to look after the nephew a...
This was a very strange tale...I can totally see why it's up there with the classics's this was a truly atmospheric, Classic Gothic, Ghost story, at its best. But is it? It could be the chilling tale of a governess that falls into The slow process of Insanity, All in all I found this to be an eerie ...
I was expecting a lot more out of this. I trod through the first part, hopelessly bored and not really liking the narrator much (she was crazy clingy with the children and very old-school-gothic-heroine, and I do not like those types) in the hopes that it would get creepy. I wanted it to be creepy...
Spooky old house, creepy kids, very nicely narrated free audiobook. What’s not to like? Just about everything else as far as I am concerned. The protagonist is a gabby unnamed governess who sees dead people but ain’t afraid of no ghosts. In the meantime there is something very fishy about the two be...
I picked The Turn of the Screw for my 2014 Halloween read. I was thinking that this would be a scary book but did not find it frightening really. Written by Henry James and published in 1898, The Turn of the Screw is a Gothic ghost story novella.The beginning of the story starts with a man named Dou...
I love ghost stories and so I thought I would enjoy this one but I was so, so very wrong. I wanted to be creeped out but couldn't get past how incredibly boring it was. There were some ghosts, or maybe there were no ghosts and the governess was just crazy, but I don't really care either way.
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