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The Turn of the Screw influenced Ghost Story
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The evidence
Peter Straub wrote Ghost Story after reading all the American supernatural fiction he could find, and named two of its old men Sears James and Ricky Hawthorne. The tale Sears James tells of his time as a young teacher is a deliberate reworking of The Turn of the Screw.
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