Description

From the Nebula and Hugo awardwinning author of The Twisted Ones comes What Moves the Dead a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poes 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 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