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What Moves The Dead

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What Moves The Dead

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Andy Ingalls
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Summary
 From the Nebula and Hugo 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.”

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.©2022 Ursula Vernon (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd Gothic Horror Scary
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Old world, new horrors. I'm a longtime fan of T Kingfisher, the male perspective is quaint.
Cosy, chilly, and adorably grotesque.

Such a hideous little niche

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Enjoyed the quick pace of this gothic, fiction novel. Loved the adaptation of brain controlling fungi

Thoroughly enjoyed

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A good take on an older book. It could almost be a prequel to The Last of Us.
I like creepy kinda stories like this. I just wanted all of them to get “ infected. “

He’s a Fun-guy

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Kingfisher succeeds in creating a vivid claustrophobic atmosphere in this novella. My skin genuinely shivered and prickled at the descriptions of the horrible fungus.

Brilliantly creepy

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I really enjoyed this book, even though it was creepy and unnerving at times. The characters were compelling and the fungi was both scary and incredible

captivating and creepy

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