Short memories from her early childhood to her adolescence should enlighten us slowly to what is going on. The original story is told from the perspective of a young man who goes to visit an old friend and his sister who slowly succumb to madness and an undescribed family illness, which leads to the brother putting his sister in the family tomb despite her not being dead. The Fall by Bethany Griffin is based on the fall of the house of Usher, a short story by one of the older masters of horror Edgar Allan Poe. My expectations were high, but the Fall doesn’t quite deliver. When I saw this book, which promises to tell the tale of a haunted house and a cursed family, I decided it was the perfect read for these somewhat dreary autumn nights.
My interest for the paranormal should be no surprise by now. Kirkus Reviews praised it in a starred review as "A standout take on the classic haunted-house tale replete with surprises around every shadowy corner." With a sinister, gothic atmosphere and relentless tension to rival Poe himself, Bethany Griffin creates a house of horrors and introduces a whole new point of view on a timeless classic. 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. But she won't let it have her brother, Roderick. The house itself is alive, and it will never let Madeline escape, driving her to madness just as it has all of her ancestors.
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. And she was put there by her own twin brother. The 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, The Fall is literary horror for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Asylum.
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