THE 2025 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVELLA

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, Britains 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 haened 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 haenings perplex the household, they are forced to confront the possibility that there is more to the old folk stories than theyd like to believe.

A dark shadow hangs over Eastons house. And nobody will rest until justice is done.