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''The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red'' is a 2001 novel by Ridley Pearson focusing on the life of the fictional John and Ellen Rimbauer and the construction of their mansion, Rose Red, in the early 20th century. Built on an old Indian burial ground, Rose Red is considered haunted and mysterious tragedies occur throughout the mansion's history. The novel is written in the form of a diary by Ellen Rimbauer, and annotated by the fictional professor of paranormal activity, Joyce Reardon. The novel also presents a fictional afterword by Ellen Rimbauer's grandson, Steven. ==Genesis of the novel== The novel's genesis came as part of a $200,000 promotional marketing campaign for Stephen King's ''Rose Red'' television miniseries.〔Jones, Stephen. ''Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide.'' Watson-Guptill, 2002. ISBN 0-8230-7884-1〕 Marketing of the film presented the movie as based on actual events.〔 In 2000, two years before the ''Rose Red'' miniseries aired, the producers contracted with author Ridley Pearson to write a tie-in novel, to be titled ''The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red,'' under the pseudonym "Dr. Joyce Reardon" (one of the main characters of the miniseries).〔Wiater, Stan; Golden, Christopher; and Wagner, Hank. ''The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King.'' Rev. reprint ed. New York: Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 0-312-32490-1〕 The novel presented itself as nonfiction, and claimed to be the actual diary of Ellen Rimbauer (wife of the builder of Rose Red). The work was originally intended to be an architectural book featuring photos and drawings of the fictional Rose Red house with the supernatural elements subtly woven into the text and photos, but Pearson (building on several references to a diary in King's script for the miniseries) wrote it as Ellen Rimbauer's diary instead.〔Jasmin, Ernest A. "'Rimbauer' Writer Clears Up Book, Film Mystery." ''Tacoma News Tribune.'' February 2, 2003.〕 Inspired by the 1999 film ''The Blair Witch Project,'' King came up with the idea of presenting the novel as a real one by having "Dr. Joyce Reardon" edit the "diary."〔 King also inserted a reference into the book's foreword that a "best-selling author had found the journal in Maine", so that fans would be misled into concluding that King had written the work.〔 The ruse worked. Fans and the press speculated for some time that Stephen King or his wife Tabitha King had written the book until Pearson was revealed to be the novel's author.〔Jasmin, Ernest A. "Filming Begins on 'Rose Red' Prequel." ''Tacoma News Tribune.'' January 9, 2003.〕 To help promote the miniseries and further blur the line between reality and fiction, the book contained a link to a fictional "Beaumont University" Web site where "Dr. Joyce Reardon" was alleged to have taught.〔〔Blais, Jacqueline. "'Diary' Is a Window Into Spooky Rose Red." ''USA TODAY.'' January 24, 2002.〕 The site contains in-universe promotional material as well as an easter egg page with diary entries that were "censored" from the main book. Intended to be a promotional item rather than a stand-alone work, its popularity spawned a 2003 prequel television miniseries to ''Rose Red,'' titled ''The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer.''〔 The novel tie-in idea was repeated on Stephen King's next project, the miniseries ''Kingdom Hospital.'' Richard Dooling, King's collaborator on ''Kingdom Hospital'' and writer of several episodes in the miniseries, published a fictional diary, ''The Journals of Eleanor Druse,'' in 2004.〔〔Eleanor Druse is a key character in ''Kingdom Hospital,'' much as Dr. Joyce Readon and Ellen Rimbauer are key characters in ''Rose Red.''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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