When Alex reaches the house, they are shocked to see Madeline so physically wasted away and horrified at Roderick’s mental instability. There’s a fungus among us! Yes, I went there. On the way to the Usher mansion, they meet Miss Potter, a visiting plant aficionado (and whose fictional niece is Beatrix Potter!) whose knowledge of plants, specifically mushrooms and fungus, later becomes a pivotal point in the book. Madeline’s brother, Roderick, formerly served with Alex in the Gallician Army and their subsequent friendship is also part of why Alex decides to pay their friends a visit. The narrator, Alex Easton, is a non-binary soldier from the kingdom of Gallicia, when they receive word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher, is extremely ill.
In short, The Fall of The House of Usher, and now, What Moves The Dead, are both crack in literary form for someone like me. We’ve got some otherwordly visions, a mysterious death and the reanimation of a dead body. We’ve got strange noises at night and weird phantasms roaming around. What Moves The Dead is a fantastic re-imagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Fall of the House of Usher, which is like a Gothic orgasm contained within a book….a Gothgasm? Anyway, as with all Gothic literature, we’ve got a big, scary house. Being the former Goth girl that I am, I retain my love for all things dark, macabre, creepy, ghostly, horrific, and occasionally gruesome, which explains why I love this book so much.
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