We're All Haunted In 'The Turn Of The Key'
Ruth Ware's new novel is a clever update on Henry James' classic of paranoia, but instead of ghosts, Ware's characters are haunted by unknowable, unpredictable smart homes and surveillance technology.
by Annalisa Quinn
Aug 10, 2019
2 minutes
In Henry James's ambiguous, paranoid novella (1898), a governess is left in charge of two children in an isolated Essex country house. Over time, she becomes convinced the children are communing with the ghosts of former servants, who appear to them, at first at a distance and then ever closer, threatening to lead them to damnation. By the end, a child is
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