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.
Book· 2009· Horror
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
The Little Stranger: it draws on 2 recorded sources.
What influenced The Little Stranger
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Waters named Shirley Jackson's novel alongside James's as an influence: a decaying house that seems to turn on the family inside it, and a haunting that is never fully separated from the people it feeds on.