The surname of the male ghost in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw is Quint. His full name is Peter Quint, a former employee at Bly who appears to the governess after his death.
According to the governess’s account, Quint had been closely involved with the children, Miles and Flora, before dying under mysterious circumstances. The governess believes that his ghost is trying to influence or reclaim Miles. His counterpart is Miss Jessel, the ghost of the children’s former governess.
Quint is sometimes confused with Miles because Miles is the boy most closely connected to the ghost’s appearances. Jessel is also a ghost, but she is female, while Gray is not a principal character in the novella. The story’s lasting power comes partly from its uncertainty: readers may interpret Quint and Jessel as genuine supernatural figures or as products of the governess’s unreliable perception. James first published the novella serially in 1898.