The Beast in the Jungle Henry James

Film

• The Beast in the Jungle is mentioned in the horror film, The Screaming Skull (1958), as a book read by the female protagonist.
• The Beast in the Jungle is mentioned in the film Confidences trop intimes (2004).
• The novella was adapted into a film of the same name in 2017 by Brazilian directors Paulo Betti, Eliane Giardini and Lauro Escorel.[2]
• The novella was adapted into a film of the same name in 2018 by Dutch director Clara van Gool.[3]
• The novella was adapted into a film of the same name in 2023 by Austrian director Patric Chiha.[4]
• The 2023 film The Beast by French director Bertrand Bonello was freely inspired by the novella.[5]

Literature

• In Phyllis Gotlieb's science fiction novel Sunburst (1964), the protagonist Shandy summarizes this story when explaining why her feeling that she is somehow different from other people sometimes frightens her.
• This story is the subject of a discussion between a few characters at the beginning of David Lodge's novel Author, Author (2004), a fictional re-imagining of the life of Henry James.
• This story is referenced in Sylvia Plath's sonnet, "Ennui" (2006).[6]
• It plays a major part in Chapter Thirty-Three of American Prometheus (2005).

Television

• "The Beast in the Jungle" is the final episode title of The Haunting of Bly Manor, based on James' other novella The Turn of the Screw, and shares similar themes to it.

Music

• The opera "La bête dans la jungle" based on the novel and composed by Arnaud Petit was first performed at Oper Köln (opera of Cologne, Germany) on April 14th 2023.