The Obsessed is an unpublished manuscript from circa 1979.[1] It is about 800 pages.[2] It was not published because it deviated from her brand of "children in jeopardy".[1]
↑ 1.01.1ESTATE OF Virginia C. ANDREWS, Deceased, etc., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. May 10, 1994. Link.
↑Interview with Ann Patty by Robin Wasserman, published on The Toast, 2013. Link. When I met Virginia, she had two other novels I knew of. One was Gods of Green Mountain [...] The other was an 800-page novel called The Obsessed. Some websites claim Flowers in the Attic came from The Obsessed, but it didn’t. The two have nothing to do with one another.
↑Interview with V.C. Andrews by Douglas E. Winter, published in Faces of Fear (1985). Link. In 1986, the first novel that she ever wrote, The Gods of the Green Mountain, will be published after substantial revisions; it will be a major departure for her, a fantasy trilogy aimed primarily at the young adult market. And she tells of plans for even more different books: "I have a medieval novel that I would like to get published, and a fantasy that is going to be published."
manuscripts written by V.C. Andrews, unpublished in her lifetime