<p><b>An Instant <i>USA Today</i>& Indie Bestseller</b><br><b>A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist</b><br><b>A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee</b><br><br><b>A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe¿s ¿The Fall of the House of Usher¿ from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher</b><br><br>*A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*<br><br>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 Ruritania.<br><br>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.<br><br>Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must