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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, 1)

An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller
A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist
A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee

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.

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176 pages

Average rating: 7.45

147 RATINGS

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14 REVIEWS

Community Reviews

blewballoon
Nov 21, 2024
10/10 stars
Love the cover, love the spooky fungi, love the zombie squirrels, love the representation of people not on the gender binary.
Professor Fuzzy Elbows
Oct 24, 2024
9/10 stars
A short novella. Creepy yet a soft darkness to it. I enjoyed the neopronouns for Alex and the artistic descriptions of the story. t. Kingfisher is a new favorite author!
susanontherocks
Oct 05, 2024
8/10 stars
Not a horror (even existential horror) fan but I love T Kingfisher. Very good story, interesting premise. I can see why people find it creepy or horrific.
desiree anderson
Sep 29, 2024
8/10 stars
A retelling of "the fall of the house of usher" this story brings in its own elements to Poes classic. It gives us a nonbinary character that is easy to care for and a mystery to solve. It is definitely one of my new favorites.
MikeCW
Jun 20, 2024
7/10 stars
Took awhile to get to the thick of the novel but the visualizations and descriptions of the mushrooms was creepy and fascinating!

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