What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Sworn Soldier #1, 165 pages
⭐⭐⭐/5
Synopsis (from Goodreads)
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.
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.
Review
I don't think I've ever read "The Fall of the House of Usher," but that did not stop me from enjoying the story. This has fungal horror mixed with a teeny bit of body horror, so not so grotesque that I had to put it down, but I did wince a few times. It was very atmospheric and a good, short book to get you in the spooky spirit.
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