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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I think the author's style fleshed out this classic well-known story. It didn't repeat the original, it genuinely added to it. In addition, the characters were fantastic and compelling.
The creepy and raw elements were greatly executed, accompanied by a narrator that was charismatic but did not downplay the events happening.
If there's anything to criticize about this, is that the introduction went a bit longer than I expected, but definitely paid off in the end.
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