"When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all."--Amazon blurb
I've read a Kingfisher book before and described it as "cozy horror" which seems a total oxymoron, but there you have it. This book, however, was much more "horror-y." Turns out that's not really my jam. Writing cadence was interesting, but this retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher was a bit much for me. However, if you are a horror fan, I would absolutely recommend it.
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