THE FALL

A 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, this is literary horror for fans of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Asylum.

Madeline Usher has been buried alive 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 around Madeline, and it will never let her escape, dooming her to the madness all of her ancestors have faced. 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, in THE FALL Bethany Griffin creates a house of horrors and introduces a whole new perspective on the timeless classic. Bethany Griffin is also the author of Masque of the Red Death, which Publishers Weekly called “seductively dark” and “decadently disturbing,” and Dance of the Red Death, both also from Greenwillow.