An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist A
Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar
Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" from Hugo Locus & Nebula award-winning author T.
Kingfisher 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 Ruritania. 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.
