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"(...)If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children-?"
"We say, of course", somebody exclaimed, "that two children give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them."
I can see Douglas there before the fire, to which he had got up to present his back, looking down at his interlocutor with his hands in his pockets. "Nobody but me, till now, has ever heard. It is quite too horrible." This, naturally, was declared by several voices to give the thing the utmost price, and our friend, with quiet art, prepared his triumph by turning his eyes over the rest of us and going on: "It's beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it."
"For sheer terror?", I remember asking.
He seemed to say it was not so simple as that; to be really at a loss how to qualify it. He passed his hands over his eyes, made a little wincing grimace. "For dreadful - dreadfulness!"
"Oh, how delicious!", cried one of the women.
He took no notice of her; he looked at me, but as if, instead of me, he saw what he spoke of. "For general uncanny ugliness and horror and pain."
"Well then", I said, "just sit right down and begin."
- The Turn Of The Screw, Henry James

Illustration work for The Turn Of the Screw (And Other Ghostly Tales) by Henry James, published by Bruin Books, LLC.

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"(...)If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children-?"
"We say, of course", somebody exclaimed, "that two children give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them."
I can see Douglas there before the fire, to which he had got up to present his back, looking down at his interlocutor with his hands in his pockets. "Nobody but me, till now, has ever heard. It is quite too horrible." This, naturally, was declared by several voices to give the thing the utmost price, and our friend, with quiet art, prepared his triumph by turning his eyes over the rest of us and going on: "It's beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it."
"For sheer terror?", I remember asking.
He seemed to say it was not so simple as that; to be really at a loss how to qualify it. He passed his hands over his eyes, made a little wincing grimace. "For dreadful - dreadfulness!"
"Oh, how delicious!", cried one of the women.
He took no notice of her; he looked at me, but as if, instead of me, he saw what he spoke of. "For general uncanny ugliness and horror and pain."
"Well then", I said, "just sit right down and begin."
- The Turn Of The Screw, Henry James

Illustration work for The Turn Of the Screw (And Other Ghostly Tales) by Henry James, published by Bruin Books, LLC.

Available on Amazon