What Moves The Dead T. Kingfisher book cover

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What Moves The Dead – T. Kingfisher

£8.99

A soldier is drawn to a decaying estate where a childhood friend lies dying, only to find the land itself disturbingly alive.

Feminist Horror & Femgore

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Synopsis

A gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher”.

Alex Easton visits the Usher estate after receiving word that their old friend is ill. The house and surrounding marshlands feel unnaturally oppressive, with strange animal behaviour and unsettling decay. As Alex investigates, they uncover forces far beyond ordinary illness or madness. For fans of Edgar Allan Poe, this retelling is a short gothic horror with a stunning cover.

All Nightmare Nook Books are selected by our chief Book Ghoul, Cat. Here’s why What Moves The Dead made the cut:

“Reimagining a classic, What Moves The Dead has strong atmospheric tension and is the perfect quick read to get you out of that reading slump!”

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Synopsis

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.