What Moves The Dead

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When Easton travels to Gallacia as a favor to Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence.

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This was amazing! I truly loved every word of ‘What Moves The Dead’. T. Kingfisher wrote this so hauntingly well. I loved the prose in this story, it flowed beautifully and I couldn’t stop reading. I have so many things I could say about Kingfisher’s retelling of EAP’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”. This was an extremely atmospheric read. I could feel the damp, cold air and the almost suffocating ruin of the manor. I loved that the narrator, Easton, had such unique pronouns; this gave an interesting voice to the story. What Moves The Dead by the brilliant T. Kingfisher hands down amazing, truly intriguing and well written story I've read so far in 2022! No, recognition is the wrong term. Classification, rather. I waited to see if she would cut the conversation short or carry on.

And yet the story is so very scary. It will make you take bleach to that little patch of mold in the corner of the bathroom sooner rather than later. After all, that fungus is creeping, creeping your direction. I've loved her writing since Summer in Orcus with few exceptions, and I open each one of her new works with an open heart, ready to love. This one brings the best of her naturalist sensibilities, the richness of actual Gothic & Southern Gothic lit, the entertaining spark of European multiculturalism (including an improbable American transplant), and a core conceit rooted in Poe's imagination together into something greater than its parts. I almost wish it were a full novel, although that would take it far beyond Poe's short story and possibly make it unrecognizable. Driven to Suicide: Madeline's maid killed herself by jumping from the roof. She was infected by the Tarn and enlisted as a host for Madeline to teach it, but found the whole thing too horrible to deal with. T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone is one of the best fantasy releases of the year thus far, a bittersweet and fiercely feminist magical fairytale about found families and seemingly impossibility quests. And now, just three months later, it looks as though she’s released one of the year’s best horror stories as well. What Moves the Dead is, at its most basic, a retelling of the Edgar Allan Poe classic “The Fall of the House of Usher,” but one grounded in complex character dynamics and bitingly dark humor.

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TK: Oh, I’m so glad it does, because since it isn’t, quite strictly a retelling of anything, it was just adjacent, getting that field down was very important to us. Set in the mid twentieth century, the story is a creative twist on Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. It has all the important elements to brew up a great story and some extra special ingredients which really makes it a unique read. Beyond this novella being better than the original it is engaging, gripping, atmospheric and hits all the Gothic notes. I loved the use of, well, the “bad guy” here. It is extremely realistic and classically scary. If I had not known better, I would have thought this story came from Poe’s time. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.What moves the dead, ‘This dreadful house. I think I would rather face a line of rifles, even now. At least that’s a human enemy.’‘If we ran, then the small child that lives in every soldier’s heart knew that the monsters could get us. So we did not run, but it was a near thing.’ B&N: Very well done. Yes. I’ve just been just thinking of all the imagery, which I think is so well done here with the fungi and the white hairs and the white coming out of the fishes. And I don’t want to give away too much for those who haven’t read it. But it’s just like, you sit there and you’re like, well, as you’re reading it. My last question for you. I am a firm believer that we are what we read. So I love instead of, you know, almost asking someone to describe themselves or talk about themselves. I love to just ask people what they’re currently reading because I feel like that’s a little bit of a window into who we are.

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A grotesque romp! It takes up residence beneath your skin and refuses to leave.”– Caitlin Starling, New York Timesbestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence There was definite inspiration from Poe and love how the author was able to really expand to create this eerie tale. This is not the first time I’ve struggled with this new wave of literature, but Ursula Vernon is the first author who made me so acutely aware of it. In a way, this review is a much about that as her novel, and for that I apologize. Major early reader trade and consumer review campaign including advertising, major ARC mailings, giveaways viaIt is often said we fear what we do not understand. Myths and stories of ghosts and fairies often arose out of strange happenings science would later explain away, and while often we discover it wasn’t witches that killed the crops or poisoned the town we also sometimes find that nature can be just as frightening as the scapegoated specters. Even though it’s been years since Alex Easton last saw their childhood friends, word of Madeline Usher’s failing health has them rushing to the countryside manor where the Usher’s live. It doesn’t take Easton long to realize something is off about the ancestral home and its property. There are weird fungi growing all over the place, the animals are behaving bizarrely, not to mention the lake has the strange tendency to glow. Somehow, Easton believes they are connected to Madeline’s worsening condition and her brother's plight of nerves. Easton and their trusted friends must work together to figure out what unusual circumstances plague the land and home of the Usher’s before they fall victim. This is a brilliant little book and I'm sure that every fan of Poe and gothic and horror will be more than enthralled by Kingfisher's version of it.

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I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.I can’t help but wonder what could have been if she had elected to make Madeline the primary perspective character and played things out from there. We may have missed out on or experienced a diminished Alex Easton, the novel’s beacon, but it would have taken the novel from retelling into reimagination territory, and I personally will always take the latter over the former. Further, seeing the perspective before and after Madeline’s ghastly transition is fertile creative ground, and I’m sad we didn’t walk there. C.S. Lewis’s greatest novel by far is Till We Have Faces, wherein he retells the Cupid and Psyche myth from the perspective of Psyche’s homely elder sister, and would have loved to see something like that here in Vernon’s extremely capable hands. B&N: So for me personally, I first came to your writing as a children’s author only to discover that you also write and illustrate a variety of other genres and mediums. And so I read, you often say that, inside every children’s book author is a horror author waiting to come out. So I’m gonna need you to elaborate on that one a little bit? B&N: And then go. Yeah, if you wanted to write any sub short Angus/Miss Potter romance, I’m just saying that I am in, personally. This year has been busy. You gifted us Nettle & Bone, and now we have this amazing Gothic horror retelling, What Moves the Dead. So, what’s next? Other than my Angus/Miss Potter romance novella. Body Horror: Creatures infected by the fungus have lungs full of it. It's explicitly noted that this process dissolves all of the structures inside the lungs (they're not hollow bags, there's stuff in there) to make room. And it gets worse from there.