Both of the Ushers seem deathly ill, and even the doctor has no idea what is really wrong with either of them. Upon seeing the Usher siblings, Alex realizes the house and grounds aren’t the only things breaking down. When Alex makes their way to the Usher castle, though, they find a half-caved-in manor on the edge of a sickly lake called a tarn.
Naturally, Alex rushes to the crumbling manor Madeline and her brother Roderick call home to do what they can to help. They receive a letter from their childhood friend Madeline Usher who thinks she may be dying. In What Moves the Dead, Alex Easton is a sworn soldier of Galacia. It’s a short book anyway, but I read it in less than a day because I could not put it down. That was all I needed to hear to be honest, and I wish I had read it as soon as I received it. The first thing I heard about What Moves the Dead was that it’s a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe.
I was given an advanced readers’ copy of this book by Tor Nightfire via NetGalley.
Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.Īided 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. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. 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 Moves the Dead is Kingfisher’s retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Gothic, Retellings
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