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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier deed the crushed moving upon its work successful 1938, and it hasn’t gone retired of people since. We’re drawn to Manderley again and again: to the isolation of Maxim de Winter’s 2nd woman and the long, heavy shadiness Rebecca formed retired successful beforehand of her. The fervent devotion to a dormant woman that the surviving 1 cannot anticipation to seizure herself. The agelong buried secrets that emergence to the surface.
If 1 were to make a caller adaptation oregon retelling of Rebecca, these gothic elements would beryllium a indispensable to include: a lavish manor that has possibly fallen into disrepair; a consciousness of dread and foreboding permeating the estate; an enigmatic and distant person you whitethorn not beryllium capable to trust; an antagonist wholeheartedly devoted to your ruin; a shade you volition ne'er beryllium capable to escape.
In these modern gothic retellings of Rebecca, galore aspects of the reimaginings are akin to the original, but immoderate enactment a unsocial rotation connected it. Some of these retellings don’t utilize a Rebecca-like shade astatine all, favoring alternatively to seizure the tone of the crumbling manor, the timid and lonely caller wife, and the unusual household she’s inherited. Not each Rebecca retelling is that straightforward, and that’s the amusive of it, right?
Here are 9 Rebecca retellings that volition marque you consciousness arsenic lonely, unsettled, and paranoid arsenic Maxim de Winter’s 2nd wife.
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Beatriz mislaid her begetter and her location erstwhile the Mexican authorities was overthrown, and she has obscurity to go. That is, until the dashing Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes marriage. Despite the whispers astir what happened to his erstwhile wife, Beatriz jumps astatine the information this matrimony offers. His location successful the countryside, however, gives her little than a lukewarm welcome. The unit are frightened of the house, her caller sister-in-law refuses to participate it astatine night, and Beatriz is proceeding and seeing things. With the assistance of a young priest, she whitethorn to find retired what’s haunting her and her caller home…all portion navigating a forbidden attraction betwixt the two.
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The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Elsie conscionable knew her beingness would beryllium cleanable erstwhile she joined Rupert, a affluent heir with a ample property that she can’t hold to see. But past Rupert dies, and Elsie is near unsocial and pregnant. She’s sent to his property for the duration of her pregnancy, and is instantly confronted with inhospitable unit and hostile adjacent villagers…and the doll. She finds a woody fig that has a singular resemblance to herself, and the unit are terrified of it. Elsie thinks it’s nonsense, but sometimes…sometimes it feels similar the doll is watching her.
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
It is 1686, and young Nella Oortman has travel to Amsterdam to beryllium the woman Johannes Brandt, a merchant trader. Although Brandt is kind, helium spends his days successful his office, leaving Nella unsocial with his cold, aloof sister. It’s not what she expected, nor is the wedding acquisition that her caller hubby gives her: a cabinet-sized replica of their manor. She hires a miniaturist to assistance furnish the tiny home, and arsenic the small rooms capable with objects and versions of everyone who lives there, Nella realizes that the replicas behave successful unusual ways…even mimicking their existent unrecorded counterparts. Nella begins to larn secrets of the location that, if revealed, could enactment them each successful danger.
Now You’re One of Us by Asa Nonami
Noriko is convinced that she’s made the close prime by marrying Kazuhito, adjacent though her parent is powerfully against the match. Eager to commencement their caller beingness together, she moves successful with her caller hubby successful a ample location that holds 4 generations of Kazuhito’s family. They’re each welcoming and kind, but the much that Noriko is astir them…the much things don’t adhd up. Her caller relatives person unusual *quirks*, and she grows much paranoid by the time by what she hears and sees…and whether she tin spot her ain senses. Is the household truly a menace to her? Or is it each successful her head?
The Winters by Lisa Gabriele
Politician and widower Max Winter has taken a caller fiancèe, and she cannot judge however fortunate she is erstwhile she arrives astatine his opulent Long Island estate. She is besotted with Max, though the longer she stays astatine the manor, the much she realizes that things are not arsenic they seem. Her fiancè’s teenage daughter, Dani, despises her and clings to the representation of her deceased mother, Rebekah — Max’s archetypal wife, loved by all, and whose representation inactive haunts the estate. Can the soon-to-be caller Mrs. Winters travel to an knowing with Dani, oregon volition the family’s acheronian secrets unravel her narration with Max earlier it genuinely begins?
The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
Jane has her aboriginal figured out: she indispensable unafraid a matrimony lucifer that volition let her to stay arsenic autarkic arsenic possible, and that means marrying Dr. Augustine Lawrence. The lone information is that she’s not allowed to sojourn his household manor, and this is perfectly good with Jane. Naturally, Jane breaks this committedness connected their wedding night, though it’s not her fault: an mishap strands her astatine her caller husband’s doorway successful the mediate of the night. Except, the antheral who answers is not the antheral she remembers. The handsome surgeon is present a terrified antheral who thinks she’s a ghost. By morning, he’s himself again. Jane knows there’s thing terribly wrong; she conscionable doesn’t cognize if it’s her hubby oregon the location itself.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Noemí would person ne'er gone to High Place if not for her cousin, who sent her alarming pleas for assistance successful the mail. She’d ne'er met her saccharine cousin’s acold and aloof husband, oregon immoderate of his coolly hostile household until she arrived to help. Noemí knows her relative good capable to cognize that thing is wrong, but her caller household seldom lets them beryllium unsocial unneurotic oregon adjacent permission the estate. Her lone state is the family’s youngest son, who tries to assistance her without getting himself successful trouble. As Noemí digs deeper into the family’s past and commits to helping her cousin, she uncovers a acheronian truthful vile that they whitethorn not beryllium capable to flight with their lives.
Alena by Rachel Pastan
A young creation curator is offered the presumption of her dreams astatine at the Nauk, a sleek creation depository successful Cape Cod, by the laminitis of the depository himself: the affluent Bernard Augustin. She soon realizes that she’s the replacement for Alena, Bernard’s erstwhile curator and muse, who tragically died 2 years before. The Nauk’s unit can’t fto spell of Alena’s memory, however, and erstwhile caller grounds surfaces surrounding the circumstances of her death, the caller curator indispensable determine wherever her loyalties lie.
Always, Forever by Nancy Ohlin
At Thorn Abbey, 1 of New England’s apical tier boarding schools, Becca was beloved by each — particularly her fellow Max. And past Becca tragically drowns. When Tess transfers to the school, she unintentionally slips into Becca’s erstwhile beingness by being her replacement roommate, and being inexplicably drawn to Max. Except thing of Becca remains, and that thing wants Tess retired of the representation — nary substance what it takes.
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