Whether seen as an unpretentious, self-conscious investigation of the frequented house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or essentially as "the foremost pitifully fiendish story we have ever examined," The Turn of the Screw is likely the foremost popular of spooky stories and certainly the foremost frightfully dubious. This unused version incorporates three seldom republished apparition stories from the 1890s, "Sir Edmund Orme," "Owen Wingrave," and "The Companions of the Companions," as well as significant extricates from James's note pads and diaries.