What Moves the Dead

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What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher, 2022 novella. Vernon doing "Fall of the House of Usher", which I don't think I've ever read (or could even have told you was Edgar Allan Poe, necessarily - possibly I might have guessed the Sleepy Hollow guy (Washington Irving) or Nathaniel Hawthorne (maybe mixing it up with "House of Seven Gables", which I also haven't read). Anyways, I can't tell you how it reads if you're less ignorant of classic literature, but for me I really enjoyed it! Some great body-horror and speculative biology. (And I am totally with Vernon on her clean room thoughts in the author's note.) Recommended if you can deal with body horror around spores/infection/that sort of thing. I think I'm putting this one on my to-nominate list.