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Title: Usher's Passing by Robert R. McCammon ISBN: 5-550-37260-6 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: September, 1984 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (20 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: One of McCammon's best
Comment: USHER'S PASSING was written early in McCammon's career. Whether or not it stands up to Poe's short story is a decision the reader must make for themselves. But when you take USHER'S PASSING in and of itself, it stands up as an awesome novel.

The plot revolves around one of the Ushers(the first name eludes me) disapproving of how his family made their wealth and his efforts to strike out on his own as a horror writer. Circumstances force the writer to return to the Usher estate and participate in a power struggle to claim the vast Usher fortune. The ending of the book, without revealing too much, makes a statement about how power corrupts. It is a brilliant combination of gothic horror and history that shows how the Usher's went from a small munition supply company in the Civil War to becoming a multibillion dollar state of the art weapons industry.

Rating: 5
Summary: Not for the casual read - but worth it!
Comment: I have read everything published by McCammon and love every single story. He has redeemed horror fans by showing that horror fiction can be intelligent, as well. I discovered his talents through this book, Usher's Passing - An electrifying and hypnotic book, this book takes a legendary tale in a whole new direction. THIS IS NOT a book for the less-than-avid reader. It takes imagination and stamina to handle the content of this book. This is McCammon's finest effort to date, and a dang-scary read (keep a light on, I'm telling you!).

Rating: 1
Summary: This book irritated me.
Comment: It's unbelievability irritated me. No, I'm not talking about the supernatural elements, of course you expect those, this is a gothic horror novel. What irritated me is the unbelievability of one of the story's main focuses: that the Ushers must keep their doings and what's going on in their estate a secret because otherwise the media will engage in a, I quote from the book "feeding frenzy." One character says that in the fight for who will inherit the family business, the sister will get it but the older brother will destroy her by pedalling her stories of drug abuse to the tabloids.

Hello? Am I the only one with any sense here? The media is not going to care one bit about the head of a munitions-making family dying, or the daughter of the owner of the weapons maker using drugs in the past. How often do you see tabloids print things like that? They talk about reporters flooding the estate, what a joke. Is there some big public interest in who is going to inherit a weapons making business? No. It makes no sense to pretend like the media is going to care that much.

This problem erupts again when the middle child, the younger son, wants to make a fortune by writing a book about the dirty secrets of his family. He acts like it will make him a billionaire. Uh, yeah. Nothing gets on the best seller faster than a tell-all book of a family who owns a weapons development company. Give me a break, that's weak.

After all that, I found Pumpkin Man very believable in relation.