Many thanks to NetGalley, Macmillan Tor/Forge Tor Nightfire and Macmillan Audio for gifting me both a digital and audio ARC of the new book by T. Kingfisher and narrated by Avi Roque - 4 creepy stars!
Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that his childhood friend, Madeline Usher is dying and races to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside. What he finds is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed hares, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is sick with a mysterious nervous issue. Alex meets a British mycologist and an American doctor who help him solve the secret of the House of Usher before they all succumb.
This is a retelling of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher" and it is such a slow-burn but increasingly tense, creepy tale. The narrator's voices really added to the creepy factor and I couldn't stop listening to this one.
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