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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

*A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*

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

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      Publisher: Tor Nightfire
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/07/2022
      ISBN13: 9781250830753, 978-1250830753
      ISBN10: 1250830753
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

      *A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*

      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

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