What Moves the Dead

An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan PoeΓÇÖs ΓÇ£The Fall of the House of UsherΓÇ¥ from Hugo,Locus& Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher When Alex Eastona retired soldierreceives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dyingthey 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 wildlifesurrounding a darkpulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at nightand her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctorAlex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.