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In this most gothic of Robert McCammon's novels, setting is key: the continuing saga of the Usher family (descended from the brother of Roderick and Madeline of Edgar Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher") takes place in the weird and picturesque heart of the North Carolina mountains. The haughty, aristocratic Ushers live in a mansion near Asheville; the poor but crafty mountain folk (whose families are just as ancient) live on Briartop Mountain nearby. At harvest time, when the book's action unfolds, the mountains are a blaze of color. Add to the mixture a sinister history of mountain kids disappearing every year, a journalist investigating those disappearances, a monster called "The Pumpkin Man," moldy books and paintings in a huge old library at the Usher estate, and a secret chamber with a strange device involving a brass pendulum and tuning forks--and you've got a splendid recipe for atmospheric horror.
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AS RIX WALKED OFF THE DELTA JET AND INTO THE AIRPORT TERminal seven miles south of Ashville, he saw Edwin Bodane's head above the group of people who'd come to meet other passengers. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent and horrific,
This review is from: Usher's Passing (Paperback)
I am an avid horor movie and book fan but I have never come across a better written horror story book then this one.It keeps you reading page after page.The story is so life like and the insights of the horrific lodge will keep you on edge. I have read this book at least 6 times over the last 15 years,and everytime you discover something new.Maybe someday the sequel will be written about Rix Usher in charge of the multibillion dollar fortune ??
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of McCammon's best!,
By someone (earth) - See all my reviews
This review is from: USHER'S PASSING (Mass Market Paperback)
A chilling story with a great plot.I think that the pumpkin man was pretty cool.I really like this book and would recomend any fans of mccammon's to read it.Definetly the scariest book by mccammon i've ever read.(I've read Boy's Life,Gone South,Usher's Passing,and Mine.)You should read this book unless you are scared of horror stories.An over-all great book!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not a book for children. . .,
By "maggie_d" (Ottawa, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: USHER'S PASSING (Mass Market Paperback)
I read Usher's Passing a number of years ago, when I was in my early teens. At the time I found the book to be terrifying and even now, in my early 20's I am haunted by the image of the Pumpkin Man peering down from the dark at that little boy. I decided to read it again, just because it had never left my mind; I needed to find out if it was really as frightening as I remembered. It is. I have also read Swan Song and Boy's Life, and can easily say that R. McCammon is my favorite author and that Usher's Passing is the scariest book I have ever read.
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