What Moves the Dead
What Moves the Dead won the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2023 and was a USA Today & Indie bestseller. 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Titan Books
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN-13
- 9781803360089
- Genre
- HorrorFantasy
- Topics
- Gothic retellingFamily curse and decayFungal horror and possession
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Horror NovelWon(2023)
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