What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher
Call Number
FIC Kingfis T
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
Body horror, unexplained illness, animal death and dissection, gore, attempted murder, body takeover
About the Book
Horror, Fantasy, Gothic, Fiction, Mystery, Retellings, Historical Fiction
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 Ruravia.
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.
Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella, Locus Award for Horror Novel, Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror, Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award Nominee, RUSA CODES Reading List Nominee for Horror