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Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This eerie novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Swan Song and Boy's Life is "a frightening pleasure" and a worthy tribute to the master who inspired it ( St. It's waiting for him, as decayed and undying as the Usher heritage, and more depraved than anything Poe could have imagined. Stirring memories of the grim folktales born out of the surrounding Briartop Mountains and the terrifying legends of missing children, Rix knows that in the dark, twisted corridors of Usherland, that dreadful something he saw as a young boy is still there. His arrival forces him to confront a devious and impassive family and his vulnerable sister's slow descent into insanity. ![]() But his father's impending death has brought Rix back home to assume the role of Usher patriarch-and face his worst fears. Years ago, he fled the isolated family estate of Usherland in the menacing North Carolina hills to pursue his writing career. Bob attended Blessed Sacrament grade school and graduated from McBride Academy Catholic School in 1944. Louis, MO on October 14, 1926, to Walter and Helen (Barry) Collins, Jr. Poe's classic tale lives on in this gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, from a New York Times–bestselling author.Įver since Edgar Allan Poe looted a family's ignoble secret history for his classic story "The Fall of the House of Usher," living in the shadow of that sick dynasty has been an inescapable scourge for generations of Usher descendants. Collins died May 6, 2023, at the age of 96. ![]()
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