What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher (Paperback)

From the multi-award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes What Moves the Dead, the first book in the Sworn Soldier series, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Fall of the House of Usher.

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, deep in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find waiting there is a nightmare: a landscape of creeping fungal growths and unnervingly possessed wildlife, all surrounding a dark, pulsing lake.

Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange, unfamiliar voices in the night, while her brother Roderick is slowly consumed by a mysterious malady of the nerves. Something is deeply, terribly wrong with the House of Usher, and its horrors are only beginning to reveal themselves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the house before it consumes them all.

A USA Today and Indie bestseller, and winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel.

Perfect for readers who love an atmospheric gothic horror, a chilling retelling of a classic tale, and a creeping, dread-soaked mystery steeped in decay and the uncanny.