The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

At the turn of the 20th century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer and began keeping a remarkable diary. The diary becomes the secret place where Ellen confesses her fears of the new marriage, and the nightmare her life would become. The diary not only follows a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion - Rose Red - a palatial home that would be the site of horrors and inexplicable tragedies for years to come....
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At the turn of the 20th century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer and began keeping a remarkable diary. The diary becomes the secret place where Ellen confesses her fears of the new marriage, and the nightmare her life would become. The diary not only follows a girl into womanhood, it follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion - Rose Red - a palatial home that would be the site of horrors and inexplicable tragedies for years to come. The fictional diary of the first inhabitant of the haunted Seattle mansion central to Stephen King’s Rose Red, this cleverly written book provides fascinating background to the ABC-TV movie. It’s also an interesting and well-developed portrait of an era and the lives of the wealthy social elite of the early 1900s..