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What Moves the Dead
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  • paperback· 170 pp9781250856890
First published 2022

What Moves the Dead

By T. Kingfisher

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Behind closed doors

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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Forced ProximityRelationshipHurt/ComfortRelationshipChildhood Friends to LoversRelationship
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