Name: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
ISBN: 9780786868018

Steven Rimbauer

The turn-of-the-century journal of young bride Ellen Rimbauer describes her marriage to Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer and the nightmare living in the Rimbauer mansion, Rose Red, a site that would become the scene of many inexplicable tragedies.

My Life At Rose Red

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

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Sarah Vaughan

I first read this years ago when the Rose Red miniseries was playing on ABC and really enjoyed it. I had forgotten a lot of the details but remembered the basic plot. I would recommend this to any Stephen King fan, as he was the screenwriter for the miniseries this book is based on.

Sasha Mann

I am quite a fan of journal style entry way of story telling. When it is done right it makes for some great reading and it jumps right to some early unease/horror.
Not only do you get Ellen's story, but those around her, with her expertly written chain of events you get a much more rounded story than you would think with the novel being told in a dear diary sort of setting. 
Story includes pictures and drawings that help really sell the journal style.
The house starts to take on a life of it's own, becoming an entity and character in its own right. Some great moments of haunting. This even has some gut wrenching scenes in it

Joyce Reardon

At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. The diary not only follows the development of a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansioncalled Rose Redan enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red 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 womans hidden emotional torment, and a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized Seattle society at the timeevents that can only be fully understood now that the diary has come to light. Edited by Joyce Reardon, Ph.D. as part of her research, the diary is being published as preparations are being made by Dr. Reardon to enter Rose Red and fully investigate its disturbing history.

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer My Life At Rose Red

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