What Moves The Dead

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Wow, this book was brilliant! It’s a retelling of Fall of the House of Usher. Being a Poe fan, I couldn’t resist reading this. But just because you know that story doesn’t mean you know this one. T. Kingfisher spins biting wit, charm and terror into a tale that will make your skin crawl. Poe would be proud!”—Brom, author of Slewfoot If you liked books such as the family upstairs and Mexican Gothic. Do not hesitate on this one. I know I'll be grabbing a physical copy! Now the main character is a soldier from the fictional country of Gallacia visiting childhood friends at their ancestral home. Added to the cast is an American Civil War doctor, a Scottish batman, and the fictional aunt of Beatrix Potter that is out collecting mushrooms. Oh yes, there’s also a horse that has a big enough personality to count as a lead. Do not skip the author’s note if you want to know more about how and why this retelling was born! I’m so glad she decided to complete this novella! I loved it!

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Bioluminescence Is Cool: The lake lights up at night like stars. It's strange glowing algae, and Alex notes that ka has seen similar on sailing ships. Ambiguous Gender Identity: There is a complicated gender element to Sworn Soldiers. Once women join the military, they're more soldiers than women and are afforded certain rights they wouldn't have otherwise. Gallacian women, therefore, often join the military to get said rights as well as money, but Alex hints in kan narration that there are some people who just don't identify as women and, in Gallacia, becoming a soldier is the closest thing you can get to changing your gender, as it gives you a legal way to change your pronouns. It's also left unclear how Alex kanself would identify, given the modern understanding of non-binary people and trans men, considering that ka would still bind kan's breasts even before the military and mentions that ka is also on the mindset that ka is more of a soldier than anything else. It has been a very long time since I’ve read Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, but I must say, this book wonderfully captures that uneasy “something is amiss” atmosphere you find in classic horror tales. Right from the start, the protagonist is charming, the narrative compelling and curious. The writing itself is brilliant, expertly capturing the plot and pulling you, the reader, along for a frightening ride.

What was it, I asked myself, what was it that was so fearful, so frightening in my view of the House of Usher? This was a question to which I could find no answer.” (narrator of The Fall of the House of Usher) Having found this E. A. Poe short story dreary and somewhat confusing, I was delighted that T. Kingfisher finally answered the question – what is so fearful in dismal Ruritania? Headache is always preferable to heartache, and if you’re focusing on not throwing up, you aren’t thinking about how the friends of your youth are dying around you.” I turned. Hob lifted his head, found the visitor as disappointing as the grass and the tarn, and dropped it again. It takes a special book to make you jump with fright at every little noise and then laugh out loud a few moments later. T. Kingfisher has once again proven to be one of the best writers of the horror genre. What Moves The Dead is a treasure I can highly recommend. B&N: And then go. Yeah, if you wanted to write any sub short Angus/Miss Potter romance, I’m just saying that I am in, personally. This year has been busy. You gifted us Nettle & Bone, and now we have this amazing Gothic horror retelling, What Moves the Dead. So, what’s next? Other than my Angus/Miss Potter romance novella.

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Recommended for people who like: speculative fiction, sci-fi, Edgar Allen Poe, atmospheric reads, creepy, mushrooms, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Fall of the House of Usher This is the type of retelling that does not go way too much of the original one, but there's beauty in that, in changing just a bit in certain places to create something new. I really loved the take the author chose for this story, and yes it certainly causes both awe and horror. Historical Character's Fictional Relative: The British mycologist is not Beatrix Potter, renowned mycologist and children's book author. She's her fictional relative, who has a lot in common. The addition of a gender bending main character of Alex Easton, as well as a new set of pronouns make this retelling unique and current while keeping within the original setting of 1890. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and an American doctor named Denton, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

Dissects the heart of Poe’s most famous tale and finds a wholly new mythology beating inside it . . . Pure fun.”—Andy Davidson, author of The Boatman's Daughter What Moves the Dead is an exceptional novel that shows its strengths in the areas that both critical literary circles and the reading public value. However, its roots are in the pulp publications of yesteryear, and for better or worse, these hold firm when tested by the winds of the modern reader.

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What moves the dead, ‘This dreadful house. I think I would rather face a line of rifles, even now. At least that’s a human enemy.’‘If we ran, then the small child that lives in every soldier’s heart knew that the monsters could get us. So we did not run, but it was a near thing.’ His voice had that light veneer of humor that we all get, because if we don’t pretend we’re laughing, we might have to admit just how broken we are. It’s like telling stories at the bar about the worst pain you’ve ever been in. You laugh and you brag about it, and it turns the pain into something that will buy you a drink.” What Moves the Dead is an expansion of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, adding in body horror, the history of a fake country, and a witty nonbinary hero.This interesting retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher " will have up so late at night finishing one of the most beautiful poetic tales of the year!