2022/142: What Moves the Dead — T Kingfisher

2022/142: What Moves the Dead — T Kingfisher

(We did not run. If we ran then we would have to admit there was something to run from. If we ran, then the small child that lives in every soldier’s heart knew that the monsters could get us. So we did not run, but it was a near thing.) [p. 137]

Another novella from T Kingfisher, whose The Twisted Ones and The Hollow Places retell, and transform, classic horror tales. What Moves the Dead is based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, relocated to the imaginary East European country of Gallacia, and with rather more fungus than the original.( Read more... )