Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is a fictional diary of a young woman from the late 19th century who is placed in a large colonial mansion with suspected postpartum hysteria and prescribed a treatment consisting of maximum isolation and a ban on activity. She soon begins to perceive that this environment is not exactly as she had assumed, and the reader discovers her terrible situation. The Yellow Wallpaper is considered one of the first psychological horrors and has influenced many later authors.