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The Turn of the Screw influenced The Woman in Black
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The evidence
Susan Hill has said The Woman in Black was inspired by The Turn of the Screw. Like James's novella it opens with ghost stories told round the fire on Christmas Eve, and keeps to a short, restrained first-person account of something the narrator cannot explain.
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