What Moves The Dead

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A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* Major early reader trade and consumer review campaign including advertising, major ARC mailings, giveaways via She had a rubbery, mobile face. Her lips pursed together dramatically. “They’re stinking redgills. A. foetida, not to be confused with A. foetidissima—but that’s not likely in this part of the world, is it?” 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 T. Kingfisher scoops you up and tosses you into the midst of the characters and story, leaving you with the urge to reread again.

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The Best Sitcoms on Netflix Right Now (October 2023) By Garrett Martin and Paste Staff October 20, 2023 | 12:00pm If we ran then we would have to admit there was something to run from. If we ran, then the small child that lives in every soldier's heart knew that the monsters could get us.” What Moves the Dead” by T. Kingfisher is all kinds of morbid, unsettling, and downright creepy. The tale is a modern reimagining of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” that further develops the original themes and ideas to create something that is even more terrifying and messed up. Fans of Kingfisher and those who enjoy snuggling up with a good horror will not be disappointed by this riveting read! The major change is the mystery at the heart of the House of Usher. I won’t spoil anything, but Kingfisher brings creepiness to the tale. It was a great twist on the tale, even though the setup is rather obvious. By choosing to keep the majority of the dialogue in a relatively contemporary tone, Kingfisher is able to lend the tale a certain warmth and sense of humor. This serves to heighten the effects of the horror as the tale progresses; after more than a century of ‘cosmic horror’ fiction which aims at depicting the ‘nameless dread’ of their protagonists encountering forces beyond their comprehension, such strategies have become less effective. The interactions and relationships between Kingfisher’s version of the cast allows the reader to invest in the story in a way the original did not, and invested horror is almost always going to be more effective than the detached, ‘cosmic’ variety.B&N: I think it’s just that curiosity. I mean, kids are creepy, and I say this lovingly. But I can’t tell you how many times my son has come to me, and he’ll be five, and just the things he says. And you don’t want to curb that curiosity and that imagination. You try your best to answer their questions, explore that McCobb side of them. And again, just curious. But it’s just so funny, because I feel like you know, Maurice Sendak has said similar things about his writing and just, you know, you put me in children’s boxes, but I write what I write and, you know, and children, I don’t think we need to be so precious that it was… This novel gave me something I've never experienced before when, two chapters in, you realize the main character is nonbinary. I was filled with delight at seeing a character like me in a setting that had nothing to do with their gender, solving mysteries and investigating spookiness. The book uses invented pronouns for Alex and eases you into them in a way that seems almost effortless. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.” What is the summary of City of the Dead? B&N: That’s gonna move me into my most recent favorite. Not necessarily a fairy tale. But, What Moves the Dead, which is sort of this gripping atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. So then, going from fairy tales. Now we’ve got Gothic classics, what brought you to this, like what brought you to the Gothics?

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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.B&N: So for me personally, I first came to your writing as a children’s author only to discover that you also write and illustrate a variety of other genres and mediums. And so I read, you often say that, inside every children’s book author is a horror author waiting to come out. So I’m gonna need you to elaborate on that one a little bit? No one does creepy horror better than T. Kingfisher, so who better to write a reimagining of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic Gothic tale of The Fall of the House of Usher?! 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.

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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. A musty and damp retelling of The Fall of The House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe, definitively deserving of high praise. Dead All Along: Madeline doesn't have catalepsy. Her "symptoms" are actually the result of being an imperfectly animated corpse. Set in the mid twentieth century, the story is a creative twist on Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. It has all the important elements to brew up a great story and some extra special ingredients which really makes it a unique read.

Obliviously Evil: The tarn doesn't realize it's doing anything wrong, but unfortunately, without ever meaning to hurt anyone it could assimilate the entire human race, and there's no safe way to explain why this would be bad. Where Poe told us the what in his short story, Kingfisher fills us in on the why and does it in an utterly believable and beautifully horrific manner. I was unable to put this one down, despite knowing the inevitable ending because the gaps that Poe had left us with, were finally being filled in. It Can Think: The Tarn is very intelligent - after all, it's a fungus that has learned to understand such insane concepts as vision and even speech. It just hasn't grasped that most people find animated corpses and being assimilated into a hive mind horrifying. There was definite inspiration from Poe and love how the author was able to really expand to create this eerie tale. While Kingfisher has added characters, she stays true to the original Poe story. If you just describe the story by the narrative beats, it matches the original “Usher.” It is as if someone who vaguely remembered the original story tried to recount what it is about. The familiarity brings a sense of comfort to the tale, as the situation in the Usher House gets more and more bizarre.