Best known for books like flowers in the attic the wildly over the top 1979 gothic family saga about four children locked in an attic by their grandmother vc andrews died in 1986 but that.
Background story of flowers in the attic.
Echoes of dollanganger and christopher s diary.
It is based on v.
Flowers in the attic is a dark gothic tale of greed and incest that will keep readers spellbound until the final paragraph.
At one point wes craven was scheduled to direct the film and had completed a screenplay draft.
Flowers in the attic is a 1979 gothic novel by v.
It is the first book in the dollanganger series and was followed by petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday garden of shadows christopher s diary.
It was twice adapted into films in 1987 and 2014.
Andrews 1979 novel of the same name.
The dollanganger family lives in pennsylvania where their father often travels on business for the public relations firm for which he works.
As well as the dollanganger series andrews in her lifetime authored my sweet audrina 1982 and the first two books in the casteel series heaven 1985 and dark angel 1986.
The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of cathy dollanganger.
The family saga gothic style horror picturesque southern surroundings and theme of incest in flowers in the attic are features of andrews s books and those that neiderman penned in her name.
Secrets of foxworth christopher s diary.
Flowers in the attic inspired the band name for amanda palmer s band the dresden dolls while gillian flynn has said that the mother and grandmother characters begat her addiction to wicked.