What Moves the Dead

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An instant USA Today & Indie bestseller. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2023. From the multi-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.

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Sprache: English

Am 18. Oktober 2022 von Titan Books veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-1-80336-008-9
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Meadhbh Dhommnail hat What Moves the Dead von T. Kingfisher besprochen

Atmospheric and Terrifying

5 Sterne

Without being too spoilery, I never, when I started reading this book, thought I would finish it feeling pity for a fungus, but here we are.

I love Poe, and Usher is one of my favorite stories of his, and this retelling is absolutely masterful. The descriptions of the grounds and house are atmospheric and almost dripping with dread, which fills every page from page one and grows slowly, but incessantly, until you reach the end.

Julie hat What Moves the Dead von T. Kingfisher besprochen

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Creepier version of Edgar Allan Poe's story of The Fall of the House of Usher.