The Turn of the Screw

This was a wonderful ambiguous story of being either about ghosts or an insane woman. However, the suspense it kept building up never lead to a real horrific moment. I kept waiting and waiting and one never showed up. I wonder if that is to keep the story tame enough to tell children? Additionally, the language was in a beautiful old victorian style that while wonderful felt intentionally obtuse most of the time. It was as if the author had a thesaurus out and looked for the most complicated version of every word in the sentence. Which ultimately came off as very pretentious imo.