Author: T. Kingfisher

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher Series: Sworn Soldier #3 Genres: Adult, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Novella Published by Tor Nightfire on September 29, 2025 Format: eBook Pages: 191 The next installment in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America.  Alex Easton does not want to visit America.  They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted.  But when their old friend Dr. Denton summons them to help find his lost cousin—who went missing in that very mine—well, sometimes a sworn soldier has to do what a sworn soldier has to do…  Book #3 in T. Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier series, What Stalks the Deep features a great premise of mysterious occurrences and a disappearance at a long abandoned mine in the rural West Virginia countryside. Those that have been keeping up with the series should know what to expect, namely its frank and sarcastic narration courtesy of sworn soldier Alex Easton, a good sense of ambiance, and a grounded approach to paranormal horror beings. Compared to the previous two entries, this one feels like …

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Dark Academia, Fairy Tale, Low Fantasy, Retelling Published by Tor on July 31, 2025 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 357 Source: Owlcrate From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Hemlock & Silver, a dark reimagining of “Snow White” steeped in poison, intrigue, and treason of the most magical kind.  Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.  Not to die, but to save—seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on.  But a summons from the King interrupts her quiet, herb-obsessed life. His daughter, Snow, is dying, and he hopes Anja’s unorthodox methods can save her.  Aided by a taciturn guard, a narcissistic cat, and a passion for the scientific method, Anja rushes to treat Snow, but nothing seems to work. That is, until she finds a secret world, hidden inside a magic mirror. This dark realm may hold the key to what is making Snow sick.  Or it might be the thing that kills them all. “Mirror mirror on the wall, give me a tale, creative from them all.” (please excuse the clunky line, I thought it would make a fun opening). Anywho, pitched as an original …

What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher Series: Sworn Soldier #2 Genres: Fantasy, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Horror Published by Tor Nightfire on February 13, 2024 Format: Hardcover Pages: 151 The follow-up to T. Kingfisher’s bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead . Retired soldier Alex Easton returns in a horrifying new adventure. 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. The second entry in T. Kingfisher’s Sworn Soldier …

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher Series: Sworn Soldier #1 Genres: Adult, Fiction, Gothic, Horror, Psychological Horror, Retelling, Thriller, Suspense, Speculative Fiction Published by Tor Nightfire on July 12, 2022 Format: Hardcover Pages: 165 From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes 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 Ruravia.  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. Foreboding and just slightly unsettling, T. Kingfisher’s What Moves The Dead is an atmospheric modern retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous short story The Fall of the House of Usher. If one is familiar with the literary classic source material, you can …