This fic follows the plot of Guillermo Del Toro's "Crimson Peak" but with alterations. The reader is a young, independent woman who gains the attention of a mysterious Thomas Sharpe. It basically follows the movie except for a happier ending and a lesser, but still prevalent, degree of Gothic tropes/dark tones. I am a huge fan of the movie/Tom/Guillermo and mean to only embrace and give my own romanticized take on the film! - I would also like to acknowledge that I have not written this story, it was originally posted by an author on archives of our own

Ten years after the papers reported the goings on at Allerdale Hall, father buys the old manor to be my first home. But odd happenings have been going on at Allerdale Hall, perhaps there's more to the mysterious quitting of scaffolders and builders than father is willing to let on.