The Turn of The Screw - in Popular Culture

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  • The song "The Infant Kiss" from the album Never for Ever by British artist Kate Bush is a song about a haunted, unstable woman's almost paedophilic infatuation with a young boy in her care, which was inspired by The Turn of the Screw.

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