Characters in What Moves the Dead

Alex Easton

A retired soldier investigating the strange illness afflicting their childhood friend Madeline Usher.

Also in What Feasts at Night, What Stalks the Deep

Lady Madeline Usher

Easton's dying childhood friend, behaving increasingly strangely.

Roderick Usher

Madeline's brother, afflicted by a nervous illness.

Eugenia Potter

An English mycologist fascinated by the estate's fungi.

Dr. James Denton

An American army doctor staying at the estate to attend Madeline; his experience is mostly battlefield surgery rather than diagnosis.

Also in What Stalks the Deep