"He presently produced something that made me drop straight down to the stone slab"

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Title

"He presently produced something that made me drop straight down to the stone slab"

Description

The fifth illustration for the serialized printing of Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw. The governess has an unsettling conversation with Miles in the churchyard, and her suspicions over his behavior and manner deepens.

Creator

Eric Pape

Source

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Publisher

Collier's Weekly

Date

19 March 1898

Format

Printed Illustration

Files

The-Turn-of-the-Screw-Collier's-6.jpg

Citation

Eric Pape, “"He presently produced something that made me drop straight down to the stone slab",” Things Terrible and Unguessable: The Turn of the Screw and the Visual Vocabulary of Gothic Horror, accessed May 3, 2024, https://thingsterribleandunguessable.omeka.net/items/show/4.