Six horror retellings of well-known stories

Lyndsie Manusos’s fiction has appeared in PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other publications. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked in web production and content management. When she’s not nesting among her books and rough drafts, she’s chasing the baby while the dog watches in confused amusement. She lives with her family in a suburb of Indianapolis.

At Book Riot she tagged six horror retellings of well-known stories, including:

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.

I have recommended this book over and over again, both here at Book Riot and at Wild Geese Bookshop, where I work. It is a perfect, eerie, unsettling, bite-sized horror story to wade into. This is great for seasoned horror fans and those who are testing the horror waters.

When retired soldier Alex Easton (my beloved horror protagonist who deserves a nap) hears that their childhood friend, Madeline Usher, is dying, they race to her home. What they discover is sporror—think spore and horror— at its most shocking. There is a wild fungus, eerie lights in the lake, and Madeline is sleepwalking at night. There is a scene in this book where Alex and other characters were freaking out over a discovery that had me legit freaking out with them. Did I throw the book? Yes, yes I did.

Read about another entry on the list.

Q&A with T. Kingfisher.

--Marshal Zeringue