It’s thoroughly creepy and utterly enjoyable. Kingfisher adds wonderful dimension and tangibility to the classic Poe story, filling it in with standout character work and scenic descriptions that linger on the palate, while fleshing out the original plot with elements as plausible as they are chilling. When Easton arrives, it is clear that Madeline and her brother, Roderick, are both in a terrible situation. Kingfisher is one of my favorite authors, but then this cover dropped. That fact alone sold me on this book, well that and the fact that T. 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 expertly reimagines Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. It tells the story of Alex Easton a non-binary retired soldier, who has been asked to attend his childhood friend, Madeline Usher. What Moves the Dead is Kingfisher's retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic 'The Fall of the House of Usher. Alex must unravel the dark secret that is consuming the house of Usher-before it consumes Alex as well. What Moves the Dead is a short, very creepy book. There, Alex finds a moldering mansion full of fungal rot and strangeness and two Ushers who are terribly, irreversibly changed. Now Madeline writes to tell Alex that she’s ill and Roderick believes she is dying, and Alex must come at once to their family home in remote Ruravia. Madeline Usher is dying of a mysterious illness, and her brother Roderick isn’t looking too well himself. Hugo and Nebula Award winner Kingfisher ( The Hollow Places) returns to the horror genre with this powerful, fast-paced retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” As a child, Alex Easton, who uses the pronouns ka and kan, befriended twins Roderick and Madeline Usher and went on to serve with Roderick in the recent war. What Moves the Dead is Kingfishers retelling of Edgar Allan Poes classic 'The Fall of the House of Usher. What Moves the Dead centers around Alex Easton, retired soldier, as they pay a visit to their childhood friends, the Ushers.

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