Usher's Island is a Gothic novel that marries history with the paranormal to create a thought-provoking tale. The book opens in the winter of 1846, as the Famine rages in many parts of Ireland. Daniel Keating attends the birth of a child to his sister, Brigid. The baby girl, Deirdre, is born. Brigid dies during the delivery, a victim of the cruel eviction that took place a day or two earlier. Daniel is wrongly accused of murdering the landlord who...