This essay discusses Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw as an allegorical story about fantasy, indeterminacy, and readers’ textuality. Within the frame narrative of the novella, the governess describes the ghost story with self-assurance. In her role as an educated woman, she analyzes the causality of the spirits, which, she believes, are the former servants of the Bly Mansion. James, however, intentionally blurs the line between fiction and reality in her storytelling. Although the governess observes and analyses the evil effect of the ghosts, her narrative fatally eludes the uncanny return of gendered and socially-classified subjectivity. Clearly, her desperate attempts to win the gentleman’s trust and the children’s affection are strikingly analogous to the desire of the former servants, which points out her precarious and in-between place in the male-centered and class-oriented society. In the last scene, where the governess’s fantasy-filled interpretation of reality claims the life of young Miles, James conveys an intriguing allegory, questioning both the extremely mechanical thinking evident in scientific methodologies and the excessive mystification of the human mind and experience that prevailed in nineteenth-century logocentrism.