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by Robert R. McCammon

ePub Usher's Passing download
Author:
Robert R. McCammon
ISBN13:
978-0345324078
ISBN:
0345324072
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Ballantine Books; Later Printing edition (September 13, 1991)
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Genre Fiction
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4.3
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To Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada. Old Welsh expression for calamity.

To Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada. I. THUNDER ECHOED LIKE AN iron bell above the sprawl of New York City. In the heavy air, lightning crackled and thrust at the earth, striking the high Gothic steeple of James Renwick’s new Grace Church on East Tenth Street, then sizzling to death a half-blind drayhorse on the squatters’ flatlands north of Fourteenth. The horse’s owner bleated in terror and leaped for his life as his cart overturned, sinking its load of potatoes into eight inches of mud.

Usher's Passing grew out of love for both the craft of horror fiction and its master, Edgar Allan Poe. I hope you too are drawn into the complex web of events Poe began. From the Holt, Rinehart, & Winston hardcover dust jacket: "Move over, King and Straub!" -Houston Chronicle. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's classic story "Fall of the House of Usher," Robert R. McCammon makes a dazzling leap of imagination in this enormously entertaining and truly frightening novel.

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Usher's Passing is a book that I had wanted to read for years. Finally I picked it up, and as the story of Rix Usher and his family played out before me I found myself spellbound

Usher's Passing is a book that I had wanted to read for years. Finally I picked it up, and as the story of Rix Usher and his family played out before me I found myself spellbound. The basic story is that Walen Usher is dying, and he is asking for his son Rix, a struggling horror author, to return home before he can name the next heir to the Usher fortune. To give anything else away would be cheating the reader.

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Robert R. McCammon is a popular horror fiction writer. He was born in 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama

Robert R. He was born in 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama. After college he spent a number of years working in advertising for bookstores in Birmingham, where he still lives. McCammon's first novel, "Baal," was published in 1978. He quickly joined the group of horror writers that includes Stephen King, Dean R. Koontz, and Anne Rice, who write suspenseful stories with modern-day settings.

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Read Usher's Passing, by Robert . cCammon online on Bookmate – Poe’s classic tale lives on in this gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, from a New York T. cCammon online on Bookmate – Poe’s classic tale lives on in this gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, from a New York . Poe’s classic tale lives on in this gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, from a New York Times–bestselling author. Ever since Edgar Allan Poe looted a family’s ignoble secret history for his classic story The Fall of the House of Usher, living in the shadow of that sick dynasty has been an inescapable scourge for generations of Usher descendants. But not for horror novelist Rix Usher.

Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers (The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song) and around 5 million books in print. His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham.

The dying Walen Usher must leave the family fortune to one of his three children--drug addict Kattrina, Boone, a drinker and a gambler, and black sheep Rix, who wants no part of it--as well as the haunted family estate and the Usher family's horrifying legacy
  • I would have given this work four stars if had been of the same caliber of 'Stinger', but it seemed that even Mr. McCammon was not interested in the people or the story. In the first third of the work we weren't really sure what was going on or where the story was taking us. I continued reading because l love Mr. McCammon's work and I know his reputation for good storytelling. In second third of the work there was too much time spent on building the mystery. I became bored and again almost put the book down. By last third of the work I was hanging on every word. The pieces were coming together and author that I had come to know and love was back.
    I would only recommend this book to those that know Mr McCammon and have read other pieces. This is not a first book to introduce this author.

  • What an amazing wild ride!!! This story is like a thrilling run away roller coaster ride. Never a dull or predictable moment. About a mostly insane billionaire family who lived on their own private mountain for 140 yrs . they made over the top guns and ammunition for military all over the world. But who will get to write a book about the family history and who will inherit the business and estate? But most importantly what has happened to the children who have gone missing every month since the turn of the 20th century?!!!

  • Robert R McAmmon wrote one of the best novels ever written, "Boys Life". Well "Ushers Passing" falls short of his greatest achievement it is still a very good book worthy of your time. This story took about 50 pages before it hooked me but once it did I could not put it down. I have never read a book by this writer that was bad but this one is in the top 75 percent. One of the best writers of his generation. I recommend this book.

  • I've read several books by this author and really liked them. Unfortunately this one fell flat. I liked most of the characters, particularly New and Rix but the story seemed forced. It started out quite good but the more supernatural it became the more it started to fall apart. The death of two characters was surprising but not because I never saw it coming but because it didn't seem to fit in the context of that part of the story. The ending was predictable and left me feeling unimpressed by the whole book. I have it three stars because I finished it and there were parts I definitely liked but it wasn't up to the standard of McCammon's other works.

  • A great horror story with a lot of surprises for me. Characters well developed. Has some aspects of "Psycho", as far as the unexpected goes. A relief from some "King of Horror" novelists who insert elitist snarky comments throughout their novels. A little anti-war tinge, but not "in your face". A real horror novel in the old fashioned way. Enjoy.

  • Usher's Passing is a book that I had wanted to read for years. Finally I picked it up, and as the story of Rix Usher and his family played out before me I found myself spellbound.

    The basic story is that Walen Usher is dying, and he is asking for his son Rix, a struggling horror author, to return home before he can name the next heir to the Usher fortune. To give anything else away would be cheating the reader. Little mysteries pop up through out the book, all connected to the truth behind the Usher family. While the majority of the story is told in the present, there are sections of the book that slip back into the past, giving the reader glimpses of the dark and rich family history of the Ushers.

    There is a lot in this book. The cast is large, and there are more plot threads then I can remember, and I just put the book down. Yet, and this is important, not one piece of it feels like padding. Everything has it's purpose, and it is told in a way that never slows down the pace. The parts of the book I thought I would dread, namely the flashbacks, became some of the most interesting sections of the story. McCammon chooses these scenes wisely and packs them full of action and drama. Part of me had actually wished that some of the past Usher's would be given their own books just because the characters created in those short vignettes are instantly well rounded and captivating.

    Over all this book is lean, well written, perfectly paced and inhabiting a cast of interesting, and fully realized characters. The only flaw I can think of is that I wish there had been more. Not to say that the book is lacking, but instead that I wanted to spend even more time with the Usher clan. Pick this one up. It's jam packed with mystery, horror, action, and will never leave you bored.

  • I was sort of interested in how he was going to present a furthering of the tale. I love my Poe. McCammon was able to maintain that poe style and keep the Ushers mystery alive with an interest twist .I did enjoy this book.

  • Ushers Passing seems to be a novel built around a single idea and a single denouement (which I won't reveal here). It's as if McCammon had one mental image of a situation, thought "thAt's cool!", then tried to build an entire novel around it, leading up to an admittedly exciting few pages of climax. I think it would have worked better as a large short story or novella - felt like I was slogging through excessive build up to get to the point.