He was not one for terror, or even horror.
Henry James has long been heralded as a master of transatlantic realism, a cosmopolitan observer of human nature, and a bone-dry contributor to the novel of manners - a blue-blooded chronicler.
The terror of exposure, of reality and confrontation.
The fear of truth.
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.
He was not one for terror, or even horror