A CLASSIC VICTORIAN HORROR NOVELLA A governess is employed to take care of the recently orphaned Miles and Flora by their disinterested uncle... Taking the children to a large house in the country, the governess begins to see visitors in the grounds near the house... visitors she very soon suspects may be malignant spirits.... A classic horror story which remains as popular and potent as it was when it was first published. The book has been adapted many times for film, TV and radio.