From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
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.
The Review
WHAT MOVES THE DEAD by T. Kingfisher
In what reads like a fever dream come to life Kingfisher reimagines Edgar Allen Poe’s THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, in WHAT MOVES THE DEAD-out now!
This isn’t the kind of book I usually reach for, making it all the more fun.
Marketed as a horror, but it leans more toward fantasy. It’s short and packed full of lush gothic elements. It reminded me a little of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, partly because it features an ominous hare and feels disorienting and is similar to but not quite like our world.
I enjoyed this novella retelling and recommend you add it to your Tbr!
Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio, Macmillan-Tor/Forge, Tor Nightfire for the advanced copies!
WHAT MOVES THE DEAD…⭐️⭐️⭐️
