Flora’s Return

Description

The longest story from my book, Tales of the Lost, this sequel to Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw was inspired by Jack Clayton’s film The Innocents.  In the original story, Flora and Miles, the two children living at Bly Manor, deny to their new governess that they can see the ghosts of the former governess and the valet, Peter Quint.  Flora is sent away after the new governess frightens her into a state of hysteria.  Left alone with the governess, Miles later dies when confronted with one of the ghost’s.

This story takes place fourteen years later, when Flora inherits Bly Manor and returns to find it still haunted, and on a mission to find out what really happened to her beloved brother Miles.

Amazon review of Tales of the Lost

Flora’s Return is the author’s own sequel to The Innocents, the 1961 gothic horror film directed by Jack Clayton (based on the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James). I think anyone who enjoyed that BAFTA-winning classic will not be disappointed with this sequel, and thus has good reason to purchase this book – with all other stories being an added bonus! All in all, thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended.