Our cover story this month, "As the Screw Turns" by Shelley Costa (excerpted here), offers one explanation of Henry James's chilling and famously ambiguous novella, The Turn of the Screw. And in a similar vein, an eerie atmosphere also pervades two other stories in this issue: in "Jango Says" by Mark Patrick Lynch, a poet is being stalked in the places he feels are most familiar in his town; while in Brendan DuBois's "Thief in the House" (excerpted here), an unwelcome visitor has a surprise coming when he enters a home on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, a nasty divorce and a forged painting set murder in motion in Christopher Welch's story "The Art of Deceit." Andrei Bhuyan looks at the murder of an Australian hedge fund manager in "High Finance." The Four Horsemen make a welcome return in Loren D. Estleman's "Get Sinatra"; this time out, the squad of WWII-era Detroit cops is assigned to protect the latest singing sensation, a young man named Frankie Sinatra. And Kenneth Wishnia chronicles murder in 16th century Europe, as two rabbis and a wise woman, all exiled from Prague, encounter a dead body on their travels; this story features characters from his newest novel, The Fifth Servant, published by Morrow Books.