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Usher’s Passing

Fall of the House of Usher - A Failed Retelling Author: Robert R. McCammon Usher's Passing is a dumb book, with a slightly interesting ending. It starts with famed horror author Rix Usher, who suffers from a mysterious malady and secretly wants to expose his family’s empire, Usher Armaments, through a tell-all book. Rix had left Usherland and the horrible influence of his father, but he has finally returned as the strange Usher disease is taking his father. Now he must deal with his fashion model sister and his belligerent brother, both of whom hope to inherit the estate and use [...]

2023-09-19T14:00:15-07:00September 16th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

Gallows Hill

Family Curses Author: Darcy Coates Margot never knew her parents. They sent her away to live with her grandmother early in her life. They never wrote. Never visited. Never called. And now, they’re dead and she’s inherited their empire: a famous winery with a horrifying backstory. Coming to Gallows Hill for the first time, Margot looks over this house, this land that she now owns. The winery was built on a site where convicts used to be hanged. The hanging tree itself is the emblem of the winery, and the oldest and most expensive vintages are stored in wood barrels made [...]

2023-10-06T14:43:59-07:00September 4th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Silent Companions, The

Legacies of Despair Author: Laura Purcell She’s locked away now. Silent. Allegedly crazy. She did, after all, kill everybody. That’s what they say, anyway. They need her testimony for the trial. Her psychiatrist is convinced that he can get her story, that he can unlock her soundless lips. What he forces her to remember – what she writes to him in her little cell – is beyond what he expected. It’s beyond what the mind can handle. Elise had a checkered past. One that already had a lot of blood in it. But that’s all secret, all behind her when she [...]

2023-09-03T16:28:43-07:00September 3rd, 2023|Tags: , , , |
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