What Moves the Dead

By: T. Kingfisher

Published by Tor Publishing Group, 2023-12-26

<p><b>An Instant <i>USA Today</i> & Indie Bestseller</b><br><b>A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist</b><br><b>A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee</b><br><br><b>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</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p>