Madeline's twin Roderick is sent away by their mother in an attempt for him to escape the grisly fates of the rest of the family. Readers see how the house slowly drives the Ushers insane or worse. Madeline's family has been cursed for generations. This novel starts off with a horrific scene and then goes back and forth in time, showing young Madeline Usher and what leads up to her being buried alive.
What worked: Griffin once again weaves magic in her retelling of a Poe novel. With a sinister gothic atmosphere and relentless tension to rival Poe himself, Bethany Griffin creates a house of horrors and introduces a whole new point-of-view on the timeless classic.Ĭreepy, haunting retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER told through the eyes of Madeline Usher. She'll do everything in her power to save him-and try to save herself-even if it means bringing the house down around them. But she won't let it have her brother Roderick. The house itself is alive around Madeline, and it will never let her escape, driving her to the madness just as it has all of her ancestors. How did it come to this? In short non-chronological chapters, Bethany Griffin masterfully spins a haunting and powerful tale of a tragic heroine and the curse on the Usher family. She was put there by her own twin brother. The doomed heroine comes to the fore in this eerie reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." Gothic, moody, and suspenseful from beginning to end, The Fall is literary horror for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Asylum.
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