What Moves the Dead
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
*A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*
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.
Also by T. Kingfisher
What Feasts at Night
A House with Good Bones
Nettle & Bone
Thornhedge
A Sorceress Comes to Call
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- Pages
- 195
- First published
- January 1, 2022
- Language
- English
- Edition
- Ebook
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Started August 9, 2026 · Finished August 9, 2026
Finished June 26, 2026
Started January 24, 2026 · Finished January 24, 2026
Started November 14, 2025 · Finished November 24, 2025
Finished June 5, 2025
Started May 8, 2025 · Finished May 8, 2025
Finished October 16, 2025
Well that was disturbing, but in like a good way? Mycelium always creeps me out though. Now to get the nerve up to read book 2!
Finished October 20, 2025 · Read 2 times
I don’t think I can look at a mushroom the same way again. Full review below contains some spoilers . . . . . . . . I loved all the references to The Fall of the House of Usher (as this book is inspired by it) and I greatly admire the dedication to fungi and their spores and secretions, it was fascinating to read. The use of neopronouns was handled brilliantly (although it did take me a minute to wrap my head around them, once I did it was so easy and natural to read, and the brief explanation on them was perfect) and I loved how these words implied the tarn was childlike/a child without needing to state it Second read: I enjoyed it so much more the second time, as I knew what was going to happen so I was able to focus a lot more on other aspects of the book, and I absolutely loved all the foreshadowing earlier on in the story!
- darkmysteriousreflectivesadtenseFast-paced
Started October 6, 2024 · Finished October 6, 2024
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