Abstract
The title of Henry James's celebrated ghost story The Turn of the Screw was ultimately derived from a figurative expression current in the author's day. (Dickens, it may be noted, had already appropriated the same idiom for a chapter title to Bleak House. However, since the title phrase also appears within the text of James's narrative, its meaning is more closely circumscribed by its use therein.
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