What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller<br/>A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist<br/>A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee<br/><br/>A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher<br/><br/>*A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Also by T. Kingfisher<br/>What Feasts at Night<br/>A House with Good Bones<br/>Nettle & Bone<br/>Thornhedge<br/>A Sorceress Comes to Call