The Fall - Hardcover

Griffin, Bethany

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062107852 ISBN 13: 9780062107855

Publisher: Greenwillow Books, 2014

Synopsis

Madeline Usher has been buried alive. The doomed heroine comes to the fore in this eerie reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." Gothic, moody, and suspenseful from beginning to end, The Fall is literary horror for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Asylum.

Madeline awakes in a coffin. And she was put there by her own twin brother. But how did it come to this? In short, non-chronological chapters, Bethany Griffin masterfully spins a haunting and powerful tale of this tragic heroine and the curse on the Usher family. The house itself is alive, and it will never let Madeline escape, driving her to madness just as it has all of her ancestors. But she won't let it have her brother, Roderick. She'll do everything in her power to save him—and try to save herself—even if it means bringing the house down around them.

With a sinister, gothic atmosphere and relentless tension to rival Poe himself, Bethany Griffin creates a house of horrors and introduces a whole new point of view on a timeless classic. Kirkus Reviews praised it in a starred review as "A standout take on the classic haunted-house tale replete with surprises around every shadowy corner."

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Madeline Usher is doomed.

The House of Usher lives and breathes around her. For generations, it has sent every Usher spiraling into madness. It claimed her mother and her father. Now it wants Madeline and her twin brother.

No one can help them. But no one, no other Usher in the generations of their haunted family, has known the house the way Madeline does.

She may finally be the one who can destroy it all.

Until she wakes up in a coffin.

About the Author:

Bethany Griffin is the author of Masque of the Red Death. She is a high school English teacher who prides herself on attracting creative misfits to elective classes like Young Adult Literature, Creative Writing, and Speculative Literature. She lives with her family in Kentucky.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062107852
• ISBN 13: 9780062107855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432