A woman is told to rest. To obey. To stop thinking. What follows is one of the most unsettling descents in modern fiction. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic, the domestic interior becomes a site of quiet horror, where care turns to control and reason gives way to obsession. Short, precise, and impossible to forget, it's a story that gets under the skin.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American writer, lecturer, and social critic associated with early feminist thought. Her work explores the constraints placed on women's lives and the psychological costs of those constraints. The Yellow Wallpaper is her most widely read and influential story.