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Nominee · Hugo Awards 2023

What Moves the Dead

by Ursula Vernon

2022 novella by T. Kingfisher

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.

Synopsis from Open Library.

Language
English
Genre
horror fiction
Pages
170
ISBN
9781250830753
Subjects
Horror, Fantasy, Gothic, Fiction, Mystery, Retellings, Novella, Historical Fiction

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