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But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realises that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow. Not since _Jane Eyre_ has a heroine faced such difficulty with the other woman. **An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, _Rebecca_ is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.** > “As a new generation of readers are introduced to the wicked housekeeper Mrs Danvers and learn Maxim de Winter's terrible secret, this chilling, suspenseful tale is as fresh and readable as it was when it was first written.” — DAILY TELEGRAPH Show more Get the Bindery app * * * Posts about this title from Boundless Press [Boundless Press\\ \\ Jananie\\ \\ • Jan 30 2025](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/) [my 2025 physical TBR \| if i don't read these books in 2025 i have to unhaul them 😱](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/item/dcd9vFD36S3UxCGQwuUb/) Welcome to another ambitious attempt to tackle my physical TBR, this time for 2025. Let me know which books I should definitely get to and which ones I shouldn't bother with! Circle back in a year for the official reaction video :) * * * 25 books 6 [3](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/item/dcd9vFD36S3UxCGQwuUb/#comments) [Boundless Press\\ \\ Jananie\\ \\ • Sep 11 2023](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/) [the 40+ books on my fall TBR 🍁🍂 fall book recommendations ☕️](https://boundless.binderybooks.com/item/7FKNu7gswDNKTyrPCLKq/) tell me your fall book recommendations in the comments! 🍁🍂 🎃 books mentioned 🎃 Misc. ↳ rouge ↳ she walks in shadows ↳ silver nitrate Dark Academia ↳ in these hallowed halls: a dark academia anthology ↳ vita nostra ↳ plain bad heroines “Classic” horror ↳ rebecca ↳ interview with a vampire ↳ dark tales Real World Horror ↳ natural beauty ↳ lakewood ↳ her body and other parties ↳ bad cree ↳ weight of blood Vampires ↳ vampires of el norte ↳ a dowry of blood ↳ masters of death ↳ house of hunger ↳ the book eaters Haunted House books ↳ a house with good bones ↳ she is a haunting ↳ the hacienda ↳ just like home Deathly Retellings ↳ a haunting on the hill ↳ the death i gave him ↳ one for my enemy Cozy fantasies ↳ legends & lattes ↳ the very secret society of irregular witches ↳ venco ↳ emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries Fantasies ↳ nettle & bone ↳ gods of jade and shadow ↳ juniper & thorn ↳the wolf & the woodsman ↳ the bone orchard ↳ the adventures of amina al-sirafi Other ↳ my dark vanessa ↳ station eleven ↳ glass hotel ↳ sea of tranquility socials 🤍 instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisstoryaintover/ 🤍 twitter: https://twitter.com/jananiekvelu 🤍 tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisstoryaintover?lang=en 🤍 storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/thisstoryaintover 🤍 goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/thisstoryaintover 💌 for business/sponsorship inquiries please contact eric@smallscreenmarketing.com 💌 for all other inquiries please contact me at thisstoryaintover@gmail.com faqs 🤍 how do you pronounce your name? \- my name is Jananie—pronounced JEN-nuh-nee (like a knee!) 🤍 what's your background/ethnicity/etc? \- both my parents are Sri Lankan Tamil, and I was born and raised in Canada! 🤍 what is your job? \- aside from youtube I also work in product marketing! * * * 40 books Posts about this book from across Bindery [Boneyard Picnic\\ \\ Natalie Meagan\\ \\ • Dec 7 2025](https://boneyardpicnic.binderybooks.com/) Join for free [Vlogmas Day 7 \| Everything I Read in November](https://boneyardpicnic.binderybooks.com/item/y3nFf8BS9GyGq7ESPL8g/) Happy first week of Vlogmas, let's talk about what I read in November! * * * 10 books 5 [The Inky Phoenix\\ \\ Kathryn Budig\\ \\ • Dec 2 2025](https://inkyphoenix.binderybooks.com/) Join for free [K.M. 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Lilly begins to wonder if they are real or if they are all in her head.\\ \\ 1\. Use this first question as an introduction. Tell us a little about yourself and your book.\\ \\ > My name is Kelly Dwyer, and I am the author of GHOST MOTHER, a psychological ghost story. I'm a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and I currently divide my time between Los Angeles, where I grew up, and Wisconsin. I am married with a young adult daughter and a really cute pug named Roman.\\ \\ 2\. You released Ghost Mother a year ago. It was such a powerful read. What inspired you to write it?\\ \\ > Thank you so much, Ash. :) The day my husband and I were about to close on our first house, we found out there had been a murder in it. This was in Baraboo, Wisconsin, where the Ringling Brothers were from. Their first cousins were the Gollmar Brothers, who also owned a circus. Our house (a modest Craftsman, not a run-down mansion) had been built by one of the Gollmar Brothers, and when he died, his widow lived there by herself, and used to feed transients during the Depression. One night, during a robbery gone wrong, one of these men murdered her. My husband and I had a decision to make--knowing this, should we still buy the house? We decided that since it happened so long ago (in the 1930s), and since the woman who had lived in the house seemed really nice, we would go ahead, and indeed, we never felt any sort of haunting in the eight years we lived there. But it made me think--What if there had been the kind of tragic murder there that would make someone not want to buy a house? What if someone who bought the house did feel a haunting? What kind of person would that be? It was when I reread Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" and I started imagining the ambiguity of--is the house haunted or is the protagonist losing touch with reality?--that the novel really came together for me.\\ \\ 3\. I absolutely love the "couple moves to a new house that needs repairs in hopes it'll save their marriage' trope that is featured in Ghost Mother. What are some of your favorite horror tropes? Any favorite books that feature these tropes?\\ \\ > Yes, it's so fun to write--and read--books that dig into tropes or put a new spin on them! When I was writing GHOST MOTHER, I read a lot of haunted house books; I think my favorites, besides James', are _The Little Stranger_ by Sarah Waters, _Rebecca_ by Daphne du Maruier, and _The Shining_ by Stephen King. (See The Most Classic Haunted House books by Kelly Dwyer  for an article I wrote on the subject.) I was also inspired by films like "Rosemary's Baby" and the TV show "The Haunting of Hill House." I think the thing that interested me the most about that trope was the question, "What is haunting you?" Two people--as you say, in this case, a couple--could move into a house, and one person will feel haunted, while the other doesn't sense anything. Is that because one person is more open to the supernatural? Is that because ghosts seek certain people out? Or is it because someone is so haunted by their past--their losses, their traumas--that they are prone to sense a haunting where maybe there isn't one? I don't know, but I love the question, and as a writer, I love the ambiguity involved\\ \\ 4\. What was the most difficult part of writing Ghost Mother?\\ \\ > The most difficult part of writing GHOST MOTHER was getting the backstory of the 1950s tragedy in the house right. It had to be compelling. I knew I wanted a nod to the circus, which had been a part of our former house's history. But it also had to be thematically resonant. I wrote three completely different backstories before my agent said, "Yep, this is it." Now, looking back, it seems so obvious, but wow, it took me a while!\\ \\ 5\. Were there any scenes or characters that were harder to write than others? Any that were easier?\\ \\ > Getting Jack and Lilly's relationship to feel real and be complicated was a challenge for me. Bobby Shawcross was the easiest character to write! I don't know where he came from, but everything about him--his speech, his voice, his appearance--just landed in my head fully formed.\\ \\ 6\. Were there any scenes that you had to edit out of Ghost Mother that you wish you had left in?\\ \\ > I love this question, because the short answer is, No! I sold GHOST MOTHER at a 100 pages longer than it is now. My editor asked me to make it tighter. She didn't tell me what to cut, or suggest a word count, but I knew I wanted it to be shorter than 350 pages. (I think it came in at 336 by the end.) To cut those hundred pages, I cut any repetitious scenes, started the story moving quicker, and cut out any unnecessary backstory. At the time, I thought maybe those scenes from the past were important so that the reader could understand and sympathize with Lilly, but after I cut them, I realized that I need to write them to understand and sympathize with Lilly, but the reader didn't need to read them. My new mantra is, When in doubt, cut!\\ \\ 7\. Do you have any other projects in the works?\\ \\ > Yes indeed! I am working on a new novel inspired by fairy tales, Hollywood, and a mansion with a bg, dark secret. It's a lot of fun!\\ \\ 8\. 2025 has been a great year for horror. What have been your top three reads that you've read so far?\\ \\ > Oh, boy. So many--and I'm so behind! I'm reading _The Buffalo Hunter_ now, and it's taking me a while, because I read and reread Stephen Graham Jones' sentences again and again. He's amazing. I also really enjoyed and admired  _Witchcraft for Wayward Girls_ by Grady Hendrix, _Hungerstone_ by Kat Dunn,  _The Lamb_ by Lucy Rose, and--one that was written a few years ago, in 1872, but I just read for the first time-- _Carmilla_ by Sheridan Le Fanu. Give me a gothic lesbian vampire story set in an isolated castle and I'm in!\\ \\ 9\. Do you have any special routines that help you get ready to write?\\ \\ > I like to set candles, set an intention. Like Proust and Edith Wharton, I write in bed.\\ \\ 10\. If Ghost Mother was ever adapted into a film, do you have a dream cast?\\ \\ > GHOST MOTHER is in pre-pre-pre-pre... production, meaning, my film agent introduced me to a director I really like, and she's interested in writing the screenplay and making the film. I would love to see this novel on the screen, and I feel like there are so many women actors about Lilly's age (37 or thereabouts) who would be amazing in the role: Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman (think of her in _The Black Swan_), Anna Taylor-Joy... maybe Florence Pugh wouldn't be too young by the time it was cast. :)  I always pictured Jack as looking like Theo James. Anybody free?\\ \\ 11\. Bonus question from Kelly: I'd like to ask you and your readers a question now, if you don't mind. Do you like horror books about horror movies? If so, what do you like about them? If not, what do you dislike? Do you have any favorites/ any recommendations? \\ \\ Thanks for the question, Kelly! I am a huge fan of Hollywood horror! There are several books I just love such as Night Film, Curse of The Reaper, Burn The Negative, Silver Nitrate, and more. 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