“I dare say, to concluded, that whenever, in quest, as I have noted, of the amusing, I have invoked the horrific, I have invoked it, in such air as that of ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ that of ‘The Jolly Corner,’ that of ‘The Friends of the Friends,’ that of ‘Sir Edmund Orme,’ that of ‘The Real Right Thing,’ in earnest aversion to waste and from the sense that in art economy is always beauty.”
Henry James, preface to “The Altar of the Dead”