The Turn of the Screw

     

The Turn of the Screw1974

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York … more »


Flora:
Darkness is a shroud to cover.

Miles:
Darkness is the cloak, beware.

Flora:
We do not fear the vast of blackness.

Miles:
We wear shadows in our hair.

Flora:
Darkness calls us to a reckoning.

Miles:
Call us to its close embrace.

Flora:
We shall soon be there to meet it.

Miles:
Though we cannot see its face.

Flora:
In the dark, the raid of the ghost.

Miles:
And the coffin cannot hold.

Flora:
Those of us who love the darkness.

Miles:
Darkness is our final throne.

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