What Feasts at Night
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4.3 • 87 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller
A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2024
A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee
Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead.
*A very special hardcover edition, featuring a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*
After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia.
In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, they find the caretaker dead, the lodge in disarray, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence. The villagers whisper that a breath-stealing monster from folklore has taken up residence in Easton’s home. Easton knows better than to put too much stock in local superstitions, but they can tell that something is not quite right in their home. . . or in their dreams.
Also by T. Kingfisher
A House with Good Bones
Nettle & Bone
Thornhedge
A Sorceress Comes to Call
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the haunting second installment of Hugo and Nebula Award winner Kingfisher's Sworn Soldier series (after What Moves the Dead), reluctant, battle-damaged hero Alex Easton, who uses the pronouns ka and kan, returns to kan childhood home in the grim and Gothic countryside of Gallacia. It should be a routine, even boring, visit to the Easton family hunting lodge. Instead, Alex arrives to find the old caretaker has died, and the village buzzing with rumors that the supposed lung disease that killed him was in fact something far more sinister. To Alex, a practical old soldier, the villagers' tales seem fanciful, the kind of thing one might tell to scare a child—until the new housekeeper's son falls ill the same way, and Alex begins to have strange nightmares. Something has awoken in the Easton hunting lodge, and it wants to steal the very breath from all of the inhabitants' lungs. Moving away from the Edgar Allan Poe story that inspired the first entry in the series, this sequel offers more surprises and just as many moments that will haunt readers' dreams. Kingfisher's winning formula of creepy folklore, affable protagonists, familiar Gothic tropes, and truly unsettling horror imagery makes this sing.
Customer Reviews
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Gothic creepiness abounds in this Alex Easton sequel. Can’t say enough good things about this book except read it! Kudos to T. Kingfisher for another great read.
Great second book
I loved the first book in this series of novellas, and I loved this story, too. The characters have such great color and depth. Anyone who loves a good scary story should read this!
Fantastic
I’ve read what moves the dead and what feast at night. Both these books have been an absolute delight to read, very easy reads good books to pick up for a fast read or get out of a book slump which I’ve been in. I can’t wait to see more books like these hopefully come out.
The book has a great smooth climax to the main “fight” against the evil presence, that to no fault of the girl ended up being turned into a creature over the centuries of her death and the main character doing a service to protect himself and the people he cared about (even slightly cared about), ended up finding mercy for the girl who was killed and turned in the end.