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What Moves the Dead

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What Moves the Dead

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Andy Ingalls
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From the Nebula and Hugo 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.”

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.

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.

©2022 T. Kingfisher (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd Gothic Horror Scary
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Absolutely stunning reworking of The Fall of the House of Usher, brilliant and I loved it. Easton was a brilliant addition, as was missing Potter and I loved the nod to Beatrix. Really enjoyed, thank you for writing it.

brilliant

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Great story and solid narration, although one character's accent changes abruptly an hour and a half from the end.

A great new twist on Poe

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I love T Kingfisher books and was pleased to see this one available in the Plus catalogue.

I hadn’t read The Fall of the House of Usher so I wasn’t familiar with the plot, but I really enjoyed the direction of the story and T Kingfisher’s style of writing. Overall, I thought it was a really refreshing horror story and I was gripped throughout.

My only criticism is that I was a bit put off by the narrator. It did make sense to have a male narrator once I realised the main character was non-binary but I don’t understand why someone with such a strong American accent would have been chosen to narrate this book when the character is from a fictional country which is so critical of Americans and the story was set in England! There’s an American character in the story too, so it just made no sense to me. It didn’t spoil the overall impact of the audiobook but I think someone with a softer accent would have brought more to the narrative.

Brilliant short story, very gripping - but wasn’t keen on the narrator

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It's quite short and packed full of entertainment from the great characters and story. The performance is really good too! Thank you for the voices Andy Ingalls :)

A Short Story I'd recommend!

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Was Miles Crane narrating this? Not sure the voice was a great fit for the MC, not massively emotive & was like having a fact sheet read out. Don’t get me started on the Scottish accent 😅 the story itself was meh.

Narrator didn’t feel like a great fit 🥴

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