Literary draft of the most iconic horror film of all time
Mary Crane feels like her life is slipping through her fingers - until she finds herself holding a substantial sum of money with which to help her loved one and make a fresh start. However, a storm and fatigue catch up with her on the run with the money. She is rescued from her wanderings by a lonely motel run by Norman Bates, a shy, seemingly harmless, bespectacled fat man who lives with his sick mother in an old house nearby. But this is not a story of dreams come true, but a nightmare...