Learn about Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’—the classic ghost story that inspired (among many other things) Netflix’s ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor.’

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Sometimes a truck unloads its cargo unexpectedly early.
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Stick these terms in your cauldron and pass them around your coven.
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