In 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.
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Spine has creases
has edge wear
cover seems to have been glued on at some point, a bit misaligned
no interior marks
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Firecode by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 1987 First Printing Popular Library Horror Paperback
Has some creasing on spine, some creasing on bottom of front cover
some edge wear and wear on corners
unmarked interior
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Human And Inhuman Stories from the Omnibus of Crime Selected by Dorothy L. Sayers McFadden Books 1963
very nice copy, pages have darkened from age
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666 by Jay Anson 1981 1st Printing Hardcover Horror Simon and Schuster
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Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural Intro by Stephen King 1981 Softcover
Has some moisture damage, please see photos for full details (mostly affected the cover)
Spine has creases
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Krampus the Yule Lord by BROM Uncorrected Proof comes with letter
Very good condition
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Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon Book Club Edition 1973 Alfred A. Knopf
DJ has some edge wear
interior unmarked and clean
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