It’s thoroughly creepy and utterly enjoyable. Kingfisher adds wonderful dimension and tangibility to the classic Poe story, filling it in with standout character work and scenic descriptions that linger on the palate, while fleshing out the original plot with elements as plausible as they are chilling. Kingfisher will have you looking over your shoulder, hearing bumps in the night, and asking yourself, what moves the dead T. Alex must unravel the dark secret that is consuming the house of Usher-before it consumes Alex as well. The House of Usher will fall, but before it does, T. There, Alex finds a moldering mansion full of fungal rot and strangeness and two Ushers who are terribly, irreversibly changed. Nightfire, 19. Now Madeline writes to tell Alex that she’s ill and Roderick believes she is dying, and Alex must come at once to their family home in remote Ruravia. Hugo and Nebula Award winner Kingfisher ( The Hollow Places) returns to the horror genre with this powerful, fast-paced retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” As a child, Alex Easton, who uses the pronouns ka and kan, befriended twins Roderick and Madeline Usher and went on to serve with Roderick in the recent war.
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