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From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
Publication Year: 2022
UGH, YUCK. I'm a doctor, but there are some stuff that I still find disgusting,and funghi are certainly among them.
This is reminding me a bit of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic - maybe they are both inspired in The Fall of House Usher and I was not aware? Still, loving the gothic horror atmospheric vibes.
As someone who doesn't read horror with anxiety, I shouldn't have started reading this in the dark at 2am... but I did, so now I have the light on. 🥲