The Sworn Soldier · Book 1
What Moves the Dead
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 165
- ISBN-13
- 9781250830814
- Type
- novel
About this book
What Moves the Dead, published in 2022, opens T. Kingfisher's Sworn Soldier trilogy at a brisk 165 pages, reworking Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher as retired soldier Alex Easton checks on a dying childhood friend in a decaying manor.
Its place in The Sworn Soldier
What Moves the Dead is book 1 in the The Sworn Soldier series. It is followed by What Feasts at Night. See the full The Sworn Soldier reading order.
Retired soldier Alex Easton -- prickly, dryly funny, and using the gender-neutral pronoun "ka" that their homeland's Ruravian dialect assigns to soldiers -- narrates this trilogy of short, atmospheric horror novels, each a loose riff on a classic Gothic or weird-fiction source. What Moves the Dead reworks Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher , with Alex arriving to check on a dying childhood friend in a decaying manor surrounded by a lake full of wrong, twitchy fungus and stranger things still. What…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250830814