The Yellow Wallpaper

A young woman is confined to a room for a 'rest cure' — and the wallpaper begins to move. A masterpiece of creeping psychological horror.

The Yellow Wallpaper

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.

Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?

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A young woman is confined to a room for a 'rest cure' — and the wallpaper begins to move. A masterpiece of creeping psychological horror.

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