Poe would be proud!”- Brom, author of Slewfoot Kingfisher spins biting wit, charm and terror into a tale that will make your skin crawl. “Thoroughly creepy and utterly enjoyable.”– Publishers Weekly “A grotesque romp! It takes up residence beneath your skin and refuses to leave.”– Caitlin Starling, New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence She lives in North Carolina with her husband, dogs, and chickens who may or may not be possessed. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children’s books. KINGFISHER writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, most recently The Twisted Ones and Swordheart. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.Īided 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. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. 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. Kingfisher, the 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.”
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