What moves the dead by T.Kingfisher

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Published: October 18, 2022 by Titan Books

Horror/Historical

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I saw that some said it was chilling horror and gory, while some said it was soft horror, and yeah I am more on that soft horror thing. Nothing gruesome happens. It is more a slow build up and sensing something is wrong. Nothing gory, but something that is creepy at the end.

Easton is called by an old friend who seems to be dying and living in a moldy mansion. Her brother looks pretty bad too. Something weird is going on with hares on the property and some old lady is looking at fungi in this made up European country in the 1890s.

But I enjoyed it. It was short, and I wanted to know what it was. I was also watching Stargate SG1 at the same time and they had this episode that was similar ;)

Soft horror.

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.