wickednerdery:

lolawashere:

“so i realized at the end of crimson peak, the credits end and the crimson peak book closes and it shows edith as the author…..so was the movie the story of her real experiences at allerdale hall…or was it the ghost story she had been making up the whole time?”

This is a very interesting thought, which makes my head hurt a little. I will think about it later. Meanwhile, just leaving it here…

Edith is just crazy, she began to go mad after the passing of her mother, then increasingly so after her father’s unfortunate (truly accidental) slip-and-fall death…Allerdale Hall is actually an asylum husband and wife, Thomas and Lucille Sharpe, run . Lucille is quite strict, more focused on running the place as one would a corrections facility and finds Edith’s behavior both irritating and disturbing; she’s in favor of lobotomizing the girl, but for now simply (slightly) over-medicates the girl with sedatives. Thomas is more focused on the potential for recovery and curing the patients; he promotes Edith’s flights of fancy and encourages her to write as therapy.

…Sounds like a potentially fascinating AU…

(Perhaps Alan is a childhood friend of Edith who aides in financing her stay/care there and occasionally visits??)