Publisher's Synopsis
How can you have a ghost story without a ghost? "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman recuperating from a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency." Gilman's skill and execution of the narrative creates a terrifyingly realistic depiction of psychosis and paranoia as the narrator becomes ever more obsessed with the patterns in the wallpaper.
