Fun, moderately creepy ghost story that's clearly influenced by the The Turn of the Screw and Jane Eyre while not being quite as good as either. Eliza takes up a position as governess in a rural Gothic setting, after the death of her father in London, but what she finds when she arrives is secrecy and absence. The children's parents don't seem to be around, and a succession of governesses has died in mysterious circumstances. What's more, it seems like she's next.

The antagonist is the best thing about this. They're entirely off their rocker, but you can understand why they are and, given the state of mental health care in the nineteenth century, it's not like they got any useful help from anyone. I'm being somewhat vague so as not to spoil things, but their motivation, from their point of view, is hard to argue with even if it's completely unbalanced and absolutely counterproductive. As much as I enjoyed the horrifying antagonist, however, the identity of the second spirit was apparent a mile off, and the twist at the very end seemed a little laboured to me. I still enjoyed it, though.