Madeline: After the Fall of Usher

by Marie Kiraly

Book Overview

Returns to the infamous House of Usher, years after author Edgar Allen Poe meets the granddaughter of the real Madeline Usher, to uncover a dark secret as twisted as the cursed house itself. Reprint. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425155730
• ISBN13: 9780425155738
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A fun follow-up to the Fall

The Fall of the House of Usher was one of several Poe short stories our local book club reviewed last month. In doing research on Poe and the story itself, this is one of the books found to be related to the original story. It has a very interesting twist, the most obvious one is having Poe as a character within the story. Yes, I had my doubts at first, also, but it works! If you liked Anne Rice's Witching Hour series, you should also enjoy Madeline. The storyline is similiar as far as having a "family involvement" is concerned. If you read Poe's Fall of Usher, I'm sure you have some questions you would like to ask Poe. Well, Madeline helps with these loose ends.

Poe would have loved this tale!

This is the book of Kiraly's that I read the fastest. The insight into Edgar Allan Poe was temendous. He wasn't a person to me before, now he is. I identified with the non-conformist lifestyle of the Usher sister and brother...something struck a cord with me...definitely! It seems to be the way people think I live.