At the turn of the century, Ellen Rimbauer, the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her anxieties about her new marriage, express her confusion over her emerging sexuality and contemplate the nightmare that her life was becoming. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into … into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion–called Rose Red–an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer is a rare document, one that gives us an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one woman’s hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized the society at the time. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D., as part of her research, the diary was published as preparations were being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully investigate its disturbing history. For more information about Reardon’s work visit www.beaumontuniversity.net.
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The way the story was written made me feel like I was reading someone’s diary. At times I felt like I was invading Ellen’s privacy, but that didn’t stop me from reading on. I have to give this book five stars. I loved it from start to finish.
Like many people who read this book, I read it because I had previously seen Stephen King’s Rose Red and loved it. Not surprisingly for an original movie written by the King of Horror, it is one of the scariest haunted house movies I’ve ever seen and it’s still a big favorite. This chilling book, written by Ridley Pearson under the pseudonym of …