The hair-raising follow-up to the award-winning What Moves the Dead. Alex Easton returns to their home country of Gallacia, only to be confronted by a strange new horror.
When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, Britain's foremost mycologist Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The locals won’t talk about what happened to the caretaker. None of them will set foot on the grounds.
Whispers of an unearthly breath-stealing creature from Gallacian folklore don’t trouble practical Easton. But as their sleep is increasingly disturbed by vivid nightmares and odd happenings perplex the household, they are forced to confront the possibility that there is more to the old folk stories than they'd like to believe.
A dark shadow hangs over Easton's house. And nobody will rest until justice is done.
Review
Praise for What Moves the Dead
A grotesque romp! It takes up residence beneath your skin and refuses to leave.
- Caitlin Starling, USA Today bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence
A deeply, unsettling examination of what sometimes goes on behind polite smiles and courteous speech.
- Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Thoroughly creepy and utterly enjoyable.
- Publishers Weekly
Creepy, claustrophobic, and completely entertaining, What Moves the Dead left me delightfully repulsed. I adored this book!
- Erin A. Craig, NYT bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows
T. Kingfisher spins biting wit, charm and terror into a tale that will make your skin crawl. Poe would be proud!
- Brom, author of Slewfoot
Dissects the heart of Poe's most famous tale and finds a wholly new mythology beating inside it. ...Pure fun.
- Andy Davidson, author of The Boatman's Daughter
What Moves the Dead is a must-read, period.
- Jordan Shiveley, author of Hot Singles In Your Area
A gothic delight!
- Lucy A. Snyder, author of Sister, Maiden, Monster
A fluid technicolor reimagining of Poe's House of Usher that takes no prisoners...Not to be missed.
- Brian Evenson, author of Last Days
Perfectly hair-raising in all the right ways.
- Premee Mohamed, author of Beneath the Rising
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About the Author
T. Kingfisher is the adult fiction pseudonym of Ursula Vernon, the multi-award-winning author of Digger and Dragonbreath. She is an author and illustrator based in North Carolina who has been nominated for the Ursa Major Award, the Eisner Awards, and has won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story for 'Jackalope Wives' in 2015 and the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for 'The Tomato Thief' in 2017. Her debut adult horror novel, The Twisted Ones, won the 2020 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel, and was followed by the critically acclaimed The Hollow Places.
