Henry James

The Turn of the Screw

£50

Illustrated by Audrey Benjaminsen

Introduced By Colm Tóibín

One of the most celebrated ghost stories of all time, Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw is newly introduced by novelist and essayist Colm Tóibín, and beautifully illustrated by Audrey Benjaminsen for this superb Folio Society edition.

The Turn of the Screw

£50
Book Details
 
Presentation Box & BindingBound in printed and blocked textured paper
Printed slipcase
Printed endpapers
Dimensions8¾ inches x 5½ inches
FontSet in Columbus
Pages168 pages
AuthorHenry James
Illustrated byAudrey Benjaminsen
IllustrationFrontispiece and 5 full-colour illustrations
Integrated black & white decorations, chapter headings and tailpieces
Publication Date13/09/2022
Editor's Notes
 
It is Christmas Eve. A group of friends gathers by a roaring fire in an old country house, when one of their party promises a tale that: ‘Nobody but me, till now, has ever heard. It’s quite too horrible.’ Widely regarded as one of the greatest ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw instantly grips the reader and doesn’t let go until the final chilling cliffhanger. Newly introduced by Colm Tóibín, whose writings on James are essential reading, our gorgeously foreboding collector’s edition is illustrated by renowned fantasy artist Audrey Benjaminsen, who plays on the dark heart of this disturbing and timeless tale with her ethereal and unsettling illustrations.

About the Illustrator

Audrey Benjaminsen

Audrey Benjaminsen is an illustrator and designer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received a BFA in Illustration from Sarasota Florida’s Ringling College of Art and Design in 2015. Inspired by nature, travel, stories, and dreams, the eldritch details of her work come to life through a variety of traditional and digital techniques. Some of her clients include Simon and Schuster, Penguin Random House, The Folio Society, Wizards of the Coast, Tor.com, and Hasbro. Her work can be seen in publications and galleries around the world. For Folio she has previously illustrated Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898, Folio 2022)

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About the Illustrator

Audrey Benjaminsen

Audrey Benjaminsen is an illustrator and designer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received a BFA in Illustration from Sarasota Florida’s Ringling College of Art and Design in 2015. Inspired by nature, travel, stories, and dreams, the eldritch details of her work come to life through a variety of traditional and digital techniques. Some of her clients include Simon and Schuster, Penguin Random House, The Folio Society, Wizards of the Coast, Tor.com, and Hasbro. Her work can be seen in publications and galleries around the world. For Folio she has previously illustrated Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898, Folio 2022)

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About the Illustrator

Audrey Benjaminsen

Audrey Benjaminsen is an illustrator and designer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received a BFA in Illustration from Sarasota Florida’s Ringling College of Art and Design in 2015. Inspired by nature, travel, stories, and dreams, the eldritch details of her work come to life through a variety of traditional and digital techniques. Some of her clients include Simon and Schuster, Penguin Random House, The Folio Society, Wizards of the Coast, Tor.com, and Hasbro. Her work can be seen in publications and galleries around the world. For Folio she has previously illustrated Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898, Folio 2022)

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About the Illustrator

Audrey Benjaminsen

Audrey Benjaminsen is an illustrator and designer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received a BFA in Illustration from Sarasota Florida’s Ringling College of Art and Design in 2015. Inspired by nature, travel, stories, and dreams, the eldritch details of her work come to life through a variety of traditional and digital techniques. Some of her clients include Simon and Schuster, Penguin Random House, The Folio Society, Wizards of the Coast, Tor.com, and Hasbro. Her work can be seen in publications and galleries around the world. For Folio she has previously illustrated Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898, Folio 2022)

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About the Illustrator

Audrey Benjaminsen

Audrey Benjaminsen is an illustrator and designer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received a BFA in Illustration from Sarasota Florida’s Ringling College of Art and Design in 2015. Inspired by nature, travel, stories, and dreams, the eldritch details of her work come to life through a variety of traditional and digital techniques. Some of her clients include Simon and Schuster, Penguin Random House, The Folio Society, Wizards of the Coast, Tor.com, and Hasbro. Her work can be seen in publications and galleries around the world. For Folio she has previously illustrated Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898, Folio 2022)

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About the Illustrator

Audrey Benjaminsen

Audrey Benjaminsen is an illustrator and designer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received a BFA in Illustration from Sarasota Florida’s Ringling College of Art and Design in 2015. Inspired by nature, travel, stories, and dreams, the eldritch details of her work come to life through a variety of traditional and digital techniques. Some of her clients include Simon and Schuster, Penguin Random House, The Folio Society, Wizards of the Coast, Tor.com, and Hasbro. Her work can be seen in publications and galleries around the world. For Folio she has previously illustrated Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898, Folio 2022)

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Henry James (1843–1916) is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English of all time. In books such as The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors he explored the clash between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ cultures of Europe and the United States, often through the figure of an American emigrant. As well as the major novels with their extraordinary richness and ambiguity, James wrote stories, novellas and plays, travel books including Italian Hours and The American Scene, and cornerstone works of literary criticism such as The Art of Fiction. James was born in New York; from 1876 he settled in London and from 1897 in Rye, East Sussex, but he continued to visit America. His unique transatlantic perspective and subtle understanding of human character mean that he has long been recognised as a master, and his most famous works – notably The Turn of the Screw – have often been adapted for film, theatre, radio and TV.

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist and essayist. His novel The Master (2004) imagined several years in the life of Henry James; it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, among other prizes. Tóibín is originally from County Wexford and was educated in Dublin. Immediately after graduating he left Ireland for Barcelona and his early books were inspired by his time in Spain; later he returned to Dublin and worked as a journalist. In novels such as The Blackwater Lightship and The Story of the Night he explored questions of Irishness, exile and gay identity. His more recent fiction, with historical settings, includes Brooklyn, which won the Costa Novel Award. Tóibín is Irene and Sidney B. Silverman professor of the humanities at Columbia University in New York and chancellor of the University of Liverpool.