What Moves the Dead

De: T. Kingfisher

Narrado por: Avi Roque

Duración: 5 h y 25 m

Resumen del Editor

Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, 2022

Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2022

"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.

©2022 T. Kingfisher (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

A good story ruined by a bad narration.

The story is a interesting and well written and I have no complaints about it,except that it's a little predictable. The narration however ruined my enjoyment of it and if it had been a longer book I wouldn't have finished it. It starts out okay, but after a while I started noticing that the narrator kept putting the emphasis on the wrong words. Not just occasionally, but almost every sentence. It's as if they are reading the book for the very first time and have no idea what's going on, sentence to sentence. Towards the end I couldn't concentrate on the story at all and just kept trying to figure out where the emphasis should be and what the meaning of each line actually was, rather than what the narrator made it seem to be.

Superb Horror Fairytale!!!

Original in every way. Great narrator. I found myself sitting in my car after I arrived at the store just so I could keep listening instead of running errands. I loved it.

A fulfilling twist on a classic tale

A scientific approach to a supernatural classic.
It left me satisfied with shivers down my spine.

an easy listen

Stange and unusual a great retelling of a classic. I enjoyed the narrator and how the stroy was written great descriptions that had my imagination running.

Delightfully creepy

Engaging take on a classic tale. Echoes of Poe while remaining fresh and entertaining. Narrator was a perfect fit.

Very eerie.

This is the first time I’ve listened to an audiobook and thought to myself “there is no way I would have enjoyed this so much if I had read it myself.” Definitely worth it. I was genuinely terrified at times. Wanted to crawl out of my skin at others.

Great Rendition

Horror isn't my usual genre, but this was very well done! I've never read The Fall of the House of Usher, but after looking at a summary, this seems to be a great expanded-upon rendition, and I like how Kingfisher brings a plausible explanation to the sickness. Overall a great, short read.

Genuinely scary

Like the rest of T. Kingfisher’s horror books. this starts out with a reasonable main character doing reasonable things. And then we are increasingly plunged into the unreasonable and genuinely icky. You thought Poe did a number on the poor Ushers? Wait until you read what happens to them here.

Ok story awful reader

I wonder if Audible does any quality control or other performance testing, because this is an absolutely horrendous reading of a book that is actually pretty engaging. The reader sounds like a mix of stereotypical robot voice and Siri. In fact, I think AI would do a better job of reading a book than this performer. Her bizarre performance constantly kicks you out of the moment and I could never fully get immersed into the story. The only mercy is the book is only 5 hrs long,

I poe retelling by a fellow horror queen

Huh...this is the first T Kingfisher book to leave me quite underwhelmed. The og Poe story is ominous and shines in its simplicity. Though the ideas incorporated by TK are interesting, I didnt feel like it added all that much to an already distressing story. Its enjoyable in its own merit and I did enjoy the characters. Its just not my fave amongst other TKs library of works.