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Usher's Passing by Robert R. McCammon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com ReviewIn 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. Product DescriptionReluctant 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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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Robert R. McCammon
Publisher
Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Published
1996
Language
EN
ISBN
9780671769925
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
Rating
3.88 / 5 (2,662 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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