I'm not sure that I've ever read a novelization of a screenplay before "Crimson Peak." It popped up in "things you may like" on my library account and although I hadn't had much interest in the movie I thought the book looked interesting. Holy crap! It's creepy and gothic and wintery and incestuous...and just sooooo darn good!
Edith Cushing is a young woman who aspires to be a novelist, specifically a horror novelist who uses her own supernatural experiences following her mother's death to fuel her stories. But when she meets the handsome and mysterious Sir Thomas Sharpe her life and the lives of those around her change drastically. Her wealthy father dies under suspicious circumstances, but before she can even discuss the matter with her faithful childhood friend Alan, she is spirited away to England with Thomas and his weirdly beautiful, but clearly sinister sister, Lucille. Cut off from the world at Allerdale Hall and surrounded by red clay that stains the earth, the snow and even the fog, she soon learns that nothing about Thomas and Lucille is as it appears. But never fear because there is still faithful Alan...and that's all I'm going to say.
Try it, you'll like it!
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