Reluctant to return home, Rix Usher, heir to the notorious House of Usher, nonetheless takes over ownership from his dying father and soon learns the house's legacy of depravity and bloodshed. Reprint. AB.
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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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By Susan Huey
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It does not start out well, and it is a chore just to keep reading - so I will not finish it.
By Michelle
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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 ??
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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!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
This book irritated me.
It's unbelievability irritated me. No, I'm not talking about the supernatural elements, of course you expect those, this is a gothic horror novel. Read more
Published on May 19 2004 by Mr Money-Bags
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of McCammon's best!
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. Read more
Published on May 3 2002 by someone
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not a book for children. . .
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... Read more
Published on Feb 27 2002 by "maggie_d"
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of McCammon's best
USHER'S PASSING was written early in McCammon's career. Whether or not it stands up to Poe's short story is a decision the reader must make for themselves. Read more
Published on July 5 2001 by Church of The Flaming Sword
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great book...worth reading
Robert R. McCammon is one of my favorite authors and Usher's Passing kept me up all night reading. I could not put this book down. Read more
Published on April 20 2001 by Elizabeth A. Klauser
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best I have ever read
I read this book in 1994 almost 7 years ago, and though I am an avid reader I am still to read another book as intriguing and realistically horrific as this one. Read more
Published on Mar 13 2001 by Raven Michaels
5.0 out of 5 stars
Creepy
This is a cool update to the classic Poe story. It follows the continuing story of the Usher clan in the modern day. Read more
Published on Jun 1 2000 by "ploid"
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very intersting book.
I really enjoyed reading this book. I thought it was a very good adaptation of the House of Usher story.
Published on Mar 16 2000 by "watsonplace"
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gothic, Disturbing, Brilliant
McCammon takes on Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" and spins a new story from where it all left off. Read more
Published on Oct 15 1999 by voyage2k
5.0 out of 5 stars
This was an amazying book
This is the best book I have ever read. He did a great job with this book and I can't wait to read some of his others. I really like the way he descriped the familys history. Read more
Published on Sep 12 1999
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