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Dark and twisted family roots threaten to strangle their home's foundations in this chilling haunted house novel from the award-winning master of modern horror, T. Kingfisher. In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it’s very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won’t hear a word against Sam’s long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small southern town. The longer Sam stays, the stranger things get. And every day, more vultures circle overhead…

An instant USA Today & Indie bestseller. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2023 and finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novella 2023. From the multi-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.

The hair-raising follow-up to the award-winning What Moves the Dead. Alex Easton returns to their home country of Gallacia, only to be confronted by a strange new horror. When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, Britain's foremost mycologist Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The locals won't talk about what happened to the caretaker. None of them will set foot on the grounds. Whispers of an unearthly breath-stealing creature from Gallacian folklore don't trouble practical Easton. But as their sleep is increasingly disturbed by vivid nightmares and odd happenings perplex the household, they are forced to confront the possibility that there is more to the old folk stories than they'd like to believe. A dark shadow hangs over Easton's house. And nobody will rest until justice is done.

Nenechajte si ujsť knihu, ktorá učarovala porotám tých najprestížnejších ocenení vo svete fantasy a sci-fi literatúry (naj YA v rámci Lodestar Award 2021, udeľovanej spolu s cenami HUGO, cena NEBULA 2020 v kategórii naj YA a middle-grade a ďalšie)! Štrnásťročná Mona nie je ako mágovia poverení obranou mesta. Nedokáže rozkazovať bleskom ani sa zhovárať s vodou. Ona si skrotila a oživila kvások (Bob je však tak trošku agresívny, a tak ho musia držať pod závorou v pivnici) a jej mágia funguje iba na chlieb. Spokojne si žije v pekárni svojej tety, kde učí tancovať medovníčky. Monin život sa však obráti hore nohami, keď nájde v pekárni mŕtvolu. V uliciach jej mesta straší vrah, ktorý poľuje na ľudí s magickými schopnosťami, a zdá sa, že jeho ďalším cieľom je práve Mona. Ibaže v obkľúčenom meste, náhle zbavenom všetkých mágov, je vrah tou najmenšou z jej starostí...

Čtrnáctiletá Mona se ani v nejmenším nepodobá velkým kouzelníkům, kteří mají na starosti obranu města. Nedokáže ovládat hromy a blesky ani promlouvat s vodou, její kouzelný společník je chlebový kvas jménem Bob a její magie působí jen a pouze na těsto. Vede pohodlný a spořádaný život v pekárně svojí tety, kde oživuje perníkové panáčky, aby zatancovali pro pobavení zákazníků. Její poklidná existence však vezme za své, když Mona na podlaze pekárny objeví mrtvé tělo. Ulicemi města se plíží vrah. Vrah, který má spadeno na kouzelné obyvatele, a zdá se, že Mona je další na řadě. Jenomže v opevněném městě, kde náhle schází všichni velcí kouzelníci, může být tenhle vrah nakonec její nejmenší starost…

Nenechajte si ujsť knihu, ktorá učarovala porotám tých najprestížnejších ocenení vo svete fantasy a sci-fi literatúry (naj YA v rámci Lodestar Award 2021, udeľovanej spolu s cenami HUGO, cena NEBULA 2020 v kategórii naj YA a middle-grade a ďalšie)! Štrnásťročná Mona nie je ako mágovia poverení obranou mesta. Nedokáže rozkazovať bleskom ani sa zhovárať s vodou. Ona si skrotila a oživila kvások (Bob je však tak trošku agresívny, a tak ho musia držať pod závorou v pivnici) a jej mágia funguje iba na chlieb. Spokojne si žije v pekárni svojej tety, kde učí tancovať medovníčky. Monin život sa však obráti hore nohami, keď nájde v pekárni mŕtvolu. V uliciach jej mesta straší vrah, ktorý poľuje na ľudí s magickými schopnosťami, a zdá sa, že jeho ďalším cieľom je práve Mona. Ibaže v obkľúčenom meste, náhle zbavenom všetkých mágov, je vrah tou najmenšou z jej starostí...

A dark and compelling fantasy about sisterhood, impossible tasks and the price of power, from award-winning author T. Kingfisher. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince-if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning. On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra's family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.

From the Nebula and Hugo 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.

Award-winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, presents a terrifying tale of hidden worlds and monstrous creations... When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there's more-Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants...until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors-because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they're looking for you. And if she doesn't face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.