From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Download a FREE sneak peek today!
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.
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Praise for What Moves the Dead
“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
“Thoroughly creepy and utterly enjoyable.” — Publishers Weekly
“Creepy, claustrophobic, and completely entertaining, What Moves the Dead left me delightfully repulsed. I adored this book!”—Erin A. Craig, NYT bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows
“T. Kingfisher spins biting wit, charm and terror into a tale that will make your skin crawl. Poe would be proud!”—Brom, author of Slewfoot
“Dissects the heart of Poe’s most famous tale and finds a wholly new mythology beating inside it. …Pure fun.”—Andy Davidson, author of The Boatman’s Daughter
“What Moves the Dead is a must-read, period.”—Jordan Shiveley, author of Hot Singles In Your Area
“A gothic delight!”—Lucy A. Snyder, author of Sister, Maiden, Monster
“A fluid technicolor reimagining of Poe’s “House of Usher” that takes no prisoners…Not to be missed.” – Brian Evenson, author of Last Days
“Perfectly hair-raising in all the right ways.” — Premee Mohamed, author of Beneath the Rising
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T. KINGFISHER (she/her) writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle and Bone, The Twisted Ones, and Swordheart. Under a pen name, she also writes children’s books. She lives in North Carolina.
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