Yet another retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. Though I would say with the twist of T.Kingfisher's What Moves The Dead, which is also based on Fall of the House of Usher.
It was decent, predictable though, after having read those two books first. I had high expectations based on reviews but the base of the story didnt change much from Kingfisher's version.
by DeadDollKitty
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You’re entitled to your opinion, but a few things.
First, Mexican Gothic is not specifically based on the Fall of the House of Usher. It is just generally based on gothic storytelling. You can say it has some of the same tropes, but Mexican Gothic and Usher are both gothic stories.
Second, What Moves the Dead, which *is* explicitly based on Usher, came out *after* Mexican Gothic. It’s even in an afterword to the book, where Kingfisher acknowledges that she felt insecure writing a mushroom-based gothic book after Moreno Garcia did such a good job on Mexican Gothic.
*What Moves the Dead* came out two years after *Mexican Gothic*, which isn’t really a retelling of “The Fall of the House of Usher”. It certainly feels like a spiritual successor, but I think it owes just as much to *Rebecca* and maybe even a little of *Jane Eyre*.