Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Henry James: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Texts
Tales
- “The Altar of the Dead” “The Beast in the Jungle” “The Jolly Corner”
The Turn of the Screw Appendix A: The Ghostly Tales: Inspiration and Reception
- From Henry James, A Small Boy and Others (1913)
- From Henry James Sr., Society the Redeemed Form of Man (1879)
- From William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1929)
- From Henry James, Letter to Mary Walsh James (26 March 1870)
- From Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)
- From Henry James, The American Scene (1907)
- From Henry James, Letter to Frederick A. Duneka (28 August 1906)
- From Henry James’s Notebooks (1904–05)
- Contemporary Reviews of “The Altar of the Dead”
- Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (May 1896)
- William Dean Howells, Harper’s Weekly (27 July 1896)
- Contemporary Reviews of The Turn of the Screw
- Oscar Wilde, Letter to Robert Boss ([?]12 January 1899)
- From Literature (15 October 1898)
- From “Mr. James’s New Stories,” Athenaeum (22 October 1898)
- From “Henry James as a Ghost Raiser,” Life (10 November 1898)
- From Illustrated London News (3 December 1898)
Appendix B: The Study of the Supernatural in Nineteenth-Century England and America
- From William James, “Certain Phenomena of Trance” (1890)
- From The Times (28 December 1898)
- From Catherine S. Crowe, The Night-Side of Nature or Ghosts and Ghost Seers (1848)
- From William T. Stead, Real Ghost Stories (1897)
Appendix C: Excerpts from Henry James’s Nonfiction Writing about the Supernatural
- From Henry James, “Is There Life After Death?” (1910)
- Henry James’s Review of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1888)
- From Henry James’s Prefaces to the Tales (1906–08)
- From the Preface to The Turn of the Screw
- From the Preface to “The Altar of the Dead,” “The Beast in the Jungle,” and “The Jolly Corner”
- From Henry James’s Notebooks (1879–1914)
Appendix D: Other Writers and Artists on James
- From Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)
- From T.S. Eliot, “On Henry James” (1918)
- From Virginia Woolf, “Henry James’s Ghost Stories” (1921)
- Charles Demuth’s Illustrations for “The Beast in the Jungle”
- Max Beerbohm on James’s Return to the United States (1904)
Select Bibliography and Filmography