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What Moves The Dead

T. Kingfisher

Blurb from a JoCoNaut:

A 165-page retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher in T. Kingfisher's signature style: creepy as hell, but also really funny. "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."

Held because Nettle and Bone from T. Kingfisher is on the current ballot.

Content Warnings (suggested by The Story Graph)
Graphic
Body horror, Animal death, Death
Moderate
War, Suicide, Murder
Minor
Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Transphobia