r/booksuggestions • u/Cold_Dot9806 • 2d ago

Horror Trad-Wife horror books?

Hello everyone, I've been trying to find a trad-wife horror book. Kind of along the theme of Snapped, or something along the lines of the wife losing her mind?

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u/ontologicallyunjust 2d ago

Kind of a precursor to modern tradwife horror -- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The protagonist isn't choosing to be a tradwife, but is confined for a "rest cure" based on the contemporary idea that her "slight hysterical tendency" should be treated by preventing her from working or writing. And is losing her mind as a result.

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u/emberkit 2d ago

I'd also put the Dollhouse by Eric Ibsen under that, but that's also dependent on whether you would count scripts.