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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Dracula by Bram Stoker Bantam Classic 2004 Mark English Cover Paperback
Some light edgewear and light spine crease
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Dracula by Bram Stoker Dell 2146 Laurel Leaf Library 1972 Paperback
Curved and worn spine
Page corners have become dry and brittle
no Missing pages, has some underlining
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Twins by Bari Wood & Jack Geasland 1978 Signet Horror
Has a crease down the center of the spine
some edge wear and wear on corners
3rd page in has a tear
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very nice copy, pages have darkened from age
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