Classics Reimagined takes four novels you were made to read at school and keeps every turn of the plot you were taught — the same people, the same houses, the same endings — while putting back what was always moving underneath. They can be read in any order. They share a method, not a world.
The Unquiet Dead of Wuthering Heights
Lockwood came to the Yorkshire moors for solitude. On his first night at Wuthering Heights a child's ice-cold hand closes on his through the broken glass, and a voice twenty years dead begs to be let in. Emily Brontë wrote that scene; this is the novel that takes it literally. Brontë's people, Brontë's plot, and beneath them the house that would not let go.
The Unquiet Dead of Wuthering Heights — coming soon.
The Changeling of Thornfield
Everyone knows the story: the orphan governess, the brooding master, the madwoman locked on the third floor. But at Thornfield the hedges are grown thick with thorn for a reason, and the thing behind the iron door is no ordinary madwoman. A retelling of Jane Eyre about the price of taking something out of the wood. Reader, she married him.
A Curse Upon Two Houses
For longer than the mortals in it will ever guess, Verona has belonged to the Montagues and the Capulets — and to the thing each house is, and hides. They do not feud over an old insult. Wolves and colder things cannot share one city forever. You know how this story is meant to end. You do not know this Verona, where the star-crossed lovers are the children of monsters.
What Walks at Wildfell
When a young widow and her son take rooms in the crumbling Wildfell Hall, the district decides she is proud, secretive, and too strange with her boy by half. They are not wrong that she is hiding something. They are only wrong about what. A gothic retelling of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — the book that completes the Brontë sisters.