Finished Rebecca today. What a fascinating book - a shame I only pretended to read it in college (I was working on my senior thesis sorry!). It’s gloomy and dreamy and weird and I’m going to blather about it for a sec 💙📚

Rebecca is marvelously atmospheric; I love the personality of Rebecca shining through even after death, basically overwhelming the nameless protagonist.

My initial read of it was that it felt very heavily influenced by the Turn of the Screw, in that it’s a country manor ghost story told by a woman who’s kind of losing it; while Screw suggests that the ghosts might not be real, Rebecca goes 1 step further: a house doesn’t need ghosts to be haunted