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What Moves the Dead

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"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.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Avi Roque delivers a perfectly paced performance in this concise audiobook, which reimagines Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher." Alex's childhood friend, Madeline Usher, is dying of a mysterious illness. Upon arrival, Alex finds strange mushrooms and unusual wildlife behavior centered around the Ushers' lake. Roque seamlessly switches between English, Scottish, and American accents to distinguish the variety of characters who are unraveling the Ushers' mystery. Their ability to wield a deadpan delivery in moments of dry humor provides a welcome reprieve from the scenes of suspense and are perfect for conveying Alex's jabs at Americans and embodying the family's opinionated horse. Roque's eerie delivery of Madeline's stuttering childlike speech conjures apprehension, holding listeners hostage until the house reveals its terrifying secrets. A.K.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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