Summary Of The Dead House By Dawn Kurtagich

The Dead House The book I was reading is called The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich. She is a writer of “psychologically sinister fiction” as described by her author bio in the book. What’s most interesting about her and this book is that she got the idea from a previous experience in her life. Kurtagich, at one point in her life, suffered from inversion syndrome (this is when someone is awake at night rather than during the day). This got her thinking about what life someone who only ever knew the night. This caused her to come up with the idea of one of the book’s characters, Kaitlyn. Once thinking up Kaitlyn she realized that for every darker half there is a lighter side, someone who experiences daily life normally. With this thought she came

The book is written in many different forms such as a diary, interviews, and CCTV with captured footage. It starts off explaining that Carly “Kaitlyn” Luanne Johnson is a patient at a mental hospital who suffers from what appears to be dissociative identity disorder (otherwise know as multiple personality disorder). Her DID is believed to have been caused by a traumatic event, specifically the death of her parents. However she claims that she has always been like this and that Kaitlyn and Carly re two different people who share the same body. Her doctor, Dr. Lansing, isn't so convinced of this being true,. Instead she claims that Carly , who is the real girl, has created an alter, Kaitlyn, who holds the memory of the death of her parents as a way of keeping Carly “safe”. While also being a patient at a mental hospital Carly also attends a private school. She lives in the school dorms and has a typically normal life during the day as a shy young girl with her group of friends, but at night Kaitlyn gets to explore and wander in what Carly gets to live. Things start to get weird for Carly, or Kaitlyn, when she begins to hear a voice and starts having strange dreams. Her doctor believes this to be a sign of psychosis, a disconnection from reality, but her best friend Nadia believes it to be something else. Who is correct is unknown. As far as spoiler free goes this is all I can

Like-I don’t know. Like, maybe I’m starting to remember something. Just the hint of something-a hunch I can’t shake. My mind was wandering, and I saw my mother, in my memory, sitting on the bed. She was wearing a blue polo-necked dress and that thick black belt. She leaned forward and said ‘Isn’t it funny how memories are just colors, shades, and impressions?’ She leaned back, and then she wasn’t Mum anymore, she was Dr. Lansing, and she was shaking her head. ‘Not so funny at all, really. Is it?’ I don’t think our parents died in an accident like Lansing says. Did they die...on