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What Moves the Dead

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  • 2022 first published
  • 170 pages
  • ★ 3.6 (8 ratings)
  • 6 editions
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Published in 2022, What Moves the Dead is a fairy-tale retelling and gothic fiction novel by T. Kingfisher. Characters include Alex Easton, Madeline Usher and Roderick Usher. It deals with retellings and Adult.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, and 124 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 6 editions.

It runs to roughly 170 pages — 3–4 hours of reading at an average pace.

About What Moves the Dead

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 Ruravia. 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.
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  • Horror
  • Fantasy
  • Gothic
  • Mystery
  • Retellings
  • Novella
  • Historical Fiction
  • Adult

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Who wrote What Moves the Dead?

What Moves the Dead was written by T. Kingfisher and first published in 2022.

What genre is What Moves the Dead?

It is usually shelved as Fairy Tale Retellings, Gothic Fiction, Horror and Historical Fiction.

How long is What Moves the Dead?

The median edition has 170 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to What Moves the Dead?

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