“Master Newlan has come home, where he belongs. He’ll be the next Pumpkin Man. The landlord and I will teach him very well. You see, the Usher diet is very important. If they don’t eat properly, the Malady ages them before their time. Hudson Usher and his brother, Roderick, and their father, Malcolm, were trapped in a caved-in coal mine in Wales. It was weeks before they were found. But Hudson and Roderick survived by … sharing their father between them. The Ushers are cannibals, Miss Dunstan. For years they got their meat from a butcher shop in Chicago. Uriah Hynd also served the landlord.
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