What Moves the Dead
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3.7 • 58 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
"The audiobook narrated by Avi Roque is delightful." - Buzzfeed
"Narrator Avi Roque delivers a perfectly paced performance in this concise audiobook...holding listeners hostage until the house reveals its terrifying secrets." -AudioFile Magazine
From T. Kingfisher, the 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Something is rotten in the European countryside, but this is no ordinary decay in T. Kingfisher’s imaginative retelling of an Edgar Allan Poe gothic horror classic. Retired lieutenant Alex Easton rides to the decrepit house of Usher after receiving a letter that the formerly great family’s only remaining siblings have taken strangely ill. Meeting eccentric English mycologist Eugenia Potter and brash American doctor James Denton, Alex arrives to find Roderick Usher in a manic state, too paranoid to sleep, and his wispy sister, Madeline, deathly ill. Much like Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic, T. Kingfisher makes everything—from the wildlife, water, and fungus to the mansion itself—seem possessed by something otherworldly. Avi Roque’s lilting narration captures the unflappable English soldier mentality of the nonbinary Easton as they unravel the supernatural mystery. Roque gives Kingfisher’s retelling flair, elevating the subtle humor and delivering many arcane accents. If you love the ominous dread of classic gothic horror mixed with a touch of postmodern absurdity, What Moves the Dead will move you.
Customer Reviews
Slow start
A little boring at first. Once the infection started, I couldn’t the book down!
Good but can be annoying
The story is great but my god the author projection is insanely annoying and obvious I don’t need a pointless 15 minute rant about pronouns like seriously get on with the story 😭
Great narrator though
What is up with this narrator?
This narrator is so bad I can’t focus on the story! The annunciation, the accents (or lack there of, aren’t they supposed to be in England???) the syntax, it sounds like what I’d imagine AI reading a book allowed to sound like but honestly worse, it’s so unnatural. No one actually talks like this!