Because of its length, Kingfisher takes an economical approach to telling the story, not wasting a single word. 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.” Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake.
“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. Here’s the official plot description, courtesy of the publisher: So yes, as you can likely tell from the disturbing cover art, What Moves the Dead deals with a crop of manipulative killer fungi that have overtaken the Usher family’s crumbling estate. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead, a fungus-infested retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, clocking in at at petite - yet nightmarish - 165 pages.įor those of you who also find yourselves obsessed with HBO’s The Last of Us, which premiered earlier this month and is absolutely fantastic so far, or you’re a fan of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s atmospheric 2020 horror novel Mexican Gothic, then you’ll be happy (or horrified) to know that Kingfisher’s novella is another entry into pop culture’s somewhat recent interest in what certain corners of the internet have started dubbing ‘sporror’: mushroom and other fungal-themed horror. Sure, getting lost in a 500-page epic is fun, too, but something under the 200-page mark is such a nice change of pace.
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