The 1839/1840 tale by Poe makes us witnesses to the mysterious decline of a house and the horrifying demise of its inhabitants. The 2022 retelling by Kingfisher gives Poe’s anonymous narrator a name, aids him with “a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor” and will hopefully guide us through the fungal growths of the house of Usher without becoming too unsettled—or maybe that uneasy feeling is exactly what we are after?
