Our mission is to provide the world with beautiful, accessible, illuminating editions of classic horror fiction, introducing these chilling gems to new generations, making them gorgeously illustrated and giving you critical, historical, and artistic insights with every single story. This is one of those books. He was not one for terror, or even horror. His fiction is impressionistic, psychological, and "courtly," but it has one pervasive emotion to it: unease -- discomfort, awkwardness, and a lurking shame buried in intentional secrecy. The fear of truth. The terror of exposure, of reality...

Henry James, (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American-born writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

Henry James (Nueva York, 15 de abril de 1843 - Londres, 28 de febrero de 1916) fue un escritor y critico literario estadounidense (aunque paso mucho tiempo en Europa y se nacionalizo britanico casi al final de su vida) de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, conocido por sus novelas y relatos basados en la tecnica del punto de vista, que le permite el analisis psicologico de los personajes desde su interior. Fue hijo de Henry James Sr. y hermano menor del filosofo y psicologo William James."