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A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher.
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.
"Thoroughly creepy and utterly enjoyable." ―Publishers Weekly
"An infectious new spin on classic Gothic horror." ―Booklist
"Readers will be rapt as the tension builds to near bursting levels and the true meaning of the title comes into full, skin-crawling view." ―Library Journal
"This gothic retelling is a hair-raising, enthralling read." ―Buzzfeed
"A grotesque romp! It takes up residence beneath your skin and refuses to leave." ―Caitlin Starling, USA Today bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence
"Creepy, claustrophobic, and completely entertaining, What Moves the Dead left me delightfully repulsed. I adored this book!" ―Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows
"The distilled terror of T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead insinuates itself into the reader's nervous system from the very first sentence and quickly overtakes their sense of self control. I was powerless against this novella's pestilential pull and had to finish it in one sitting ... or maybe it finished me." ―Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
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T. Kingfisher (she/her) writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead, Thornhedge, A House with Good Bones, and A Sorceress Comes to Call. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children's books. She lives in New Mexico with her husband.
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