/lit/ - Literature

>>20841762
>When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.

>What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

>Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

It is as bad as you think it is.

The absolute state of this fucking industry.

>literally inserting a fag agender bullshit character as the lead, retelling The Fall of the House of Usher
>Complete rip off of Mexican Gothic, another female empowerment "horror" book.

TOR bought this.

>>20812036
Transfixed is still purple, first person narration makes it especially so. No one thinks to themselves "Oh boy I am transfixed by this."