It will disappoint some that this was not Edith’s novelization of the events but a fairly direct novelization of the film instead. As for additions, there’s some bonus material that fans of the film will appreciate, including a glimpse of the Sharpes’ childhood, the complex inner lives of several of the main characters, and a few scenes we didn’t get to see in the film, as well as slight extensions for a handful of preexisting ones. The language, though occasionally purple, is fitting and very successful in maintaining the overall tone. While the story itself leans heavily on the traditions and tropes of gothic romance in general, the beauty with which it’s carried out forces the observer’s forgiveness for its predictability. However, like the film, it entrances despite its flaws. Like the film, the novelization is imperfect, perhaps even more so than its source material due to some of the more experimental aspects of the book. Edith’s new sister-in-law, Lady Lucille Sharpe, has her own designs for them all, and in Thomas’s fight to keep his past hidden from Edith and his desired future hidden from Lucille, Allerdale Hall plays host to betrayal and tragedy once more. Follow Edith, an heiress in New York at the dawn of the twentieth century, as she’s swept away by Sir Thomas Sharpe to an English house of horrors after the mysterious death of her father. The novelization of Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak is here.

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