{ "item_title" : "The Fall of the House of Usher", "item_author" : [" Henry Radclyffe", "Edgar Allan Poe "], "item_description" : "38 original illustrated comic pagesNew introduction and afterwordSome houses keep their secrets. This one has been listening for centuries.On a dull, dark autumn evening, a lone traveler rides up to the House of Usher: a crumbling mansion of gray stone whose windows stare like empty eyes, and whose image trembles upside down in a black, silent tarn. He has come because of a letter. Roderick Usher, the closest friend of his boyhood, is ill and begs for his company.The man who greets him is barely recognizable. Roderick's senses have grown so acute that light wounds him and only the strings of a guitar can soothe him. His sister Madeline, his only living relative, is wasting away from an illness no doctor can explain. And Roderick is convinced that the house itself is alive: that its stones, its fungi and its reflection in the water have shaped the fate of the Ushers for generations.The guest tries to lift his friend's spirits with painting, books and music. But day after day the gloom of the house seeps into him too. And when a storm finally breaks over the walls, he begins to hear what Roderick hears.The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) is Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of gothic terror, a story of madness, family and dread that has haunted writers, composers and filmmakers for nearly two centuries. This graphic novel tells it in Poe's own words, drawn in a vintage pen-and-ink style of deep blacks and quiet grays. Color appears only where light carries a meaning: the livid sheen of the tarn, the feeble glow of a lamp, a little gold in a song. And one red waits for its moment.Inside this book38 full-page comic plates, faithful to the original storyCaptions drawn word for word from Poe's text, including his poem The Haunted PalaceA spoiler-free introduction to Poe and the storyA note on the adaptation, with character and location studies6 × 9 inch paperback, 50 pages, printed in colorPart of Classics in Comics, a series that brings the great works of literature to the page as illustrated graphic novels. For lovers of classic horror and literary comics, and for readers meeting Poe for the first time. Read it at night, and listen.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/668/9798166687319_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "11.99", "online_price" : "11.99", "our_price" : "11.99", "club_price" : "11.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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