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The Third Person - boring i’m sorry 💔 the ghost wasn’t even scary!!

The Jolly Corner - fascinating take on a ghost story and also featured my favourite romance in the collection (though this wasn’t a high bar to reach)

The Friends of the Friends - absolutely chilling final line. unfortunately after how much I enjoyed the last two stories I think this one was a bit of a letdown

The Turn of the Screw - the main event! I liked the show but the original story knocked it out of the park. read this at night time and it was genuinely freaking me out, and I don’t scare that easily. posing children as the antagonists was perfect

Sir Edmund Orme - funnily enough this story reminded me of an Austen novel and kind of cemented the fact that the classics I enjoy the most always involve personal drama. I found the character/behaviour of Mrs Marden so fascinating

Owen Wingrave - the saddest story by far… Henry James is great at really drawing out the suspense and tension and no matter how inevitable the end feels it always hits

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes - delightfully creepy. I knew exactly how this one would end but was taken aback anyway by the suddenness of it.

The Last of the Valerii - not a ghost story so lowkey a disappointment in that regard, though it was a bit fun brushing up on my Roman mythology knowledge

Will slowly be reading the shorts stories over some time. So far so good though