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The Turn of the Screw influenced The Little Stranger
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The influence
The Turn of the Screw
Short Story · 1898
The work it shaped
The Little Stranger
Book · 2009
The evidence
Sarah Waters named The Turn of the Screw as an influence on The Little Stranger: a ghost story told by a narrator whose account the reader slowly stops trusting, where the haunting may be in the house or in the one telling it.
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