On Christmas Eve, around a country-house fire, an old manuscript is read aloud: the account of a young governess sent to Bly, a remote English estate, to care for two orphaned children, the angelic Miles and Flora. Their absent uncle has one condition: she must never trouble him. But soon she glimpses strange figures on the tower and beyond the lake, and becomes convinced that the former valet and the previous governess, both dead, have returned for the children. Are the ghosts real, or is something darker at work in her own mind? Henry James's chilling 1898 masterpiece of ambiguity and dread.
