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seraphcelene) wrote2024-06-26 11:44 pm
seraphcelene) wrote2024-06-26 11:44 pm
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Book: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
I'm digging the surge in Gothic novels.
What Moves the Dead is atmospheric and chilling in the best way. The waitress at lunch startled me TWICE while bringing me water where I sat outside in the afternoon sun!!! Its written close to the bones of its inspiration (its a rework of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher) and carries well the flavors of Romantic 19th century literature. I loved the ways that it was updated, Easton and Miss Potter specifically, but also the creepy fungi with a side of body horror. Oh, yes, please!
What Moves the Dead is atmospheric and chilling in the best way. The waitress at lunch startled me TWICE while bringing me water where I sat outside in the afternoon sun!!! Its written close to the bones of its inspiration (its a rework of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher) and carries well the flavors of Romantic 19th century literature. I loved the ways that it was updated, Easton and Miss Potter specifically, but also the creepy fungi with a side of body horror. Oh, yes, please!