![]() ![]() Kingfisher may not be new on the scene, but the characters of What Moves the Dead are a breath of fresh air.Īlex Easton is a sworn soldier coming to visit their friends the Ushers following a letter from Madeline Usher indicating her own failing health. With that in mind, it’s always a delight to see his work given new life by new voices. ![]() I was a Gothic fan before I was anything, but with that comes the knowledge that for all his talent, Poe could also tend toward the denser side, waxing poetic about things that seem unrelated to the core story for so long it’s easy to forget just what he started on. ![]() From fear of the elderly to tales of revenge to his tried-and-true staple of mourning the loss of a beautiful woman cut down in her prime, he was a master of dread and I read him so voraciously as a child it’s almost a wonder I didn’t consider myself a genre fan earlier in life. Haunted as he was in life, it’s no surprise he was so adept at tapping directly into fears in his work, no matter how dark and unusual they were. ![]()
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