

Through Edmund’s journal, his entitlement of his position in the world is clear. While the characters are fictional, much of the story is based on real historical accounts the delirious writings of a spiritualist, the disturbing paintings of asylum inmates, and the doom, a religious mural depicting the Day of Judgement. Wakenhyrst is a gothic style horror set in the fens of East Anglia.
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The gulf between these two existences was vast. 60 years later, his daughter releases his, and her, story to the world. He admitted he did it but that he never did anything wrong. The journals of painter and historian Edmund Stearne have been kept safely in Wake’s End since his admittance to an asylum for the criminally insane.
