What Moves the Dead

I went into this expecting a gothic body horror, and it wasn't at all gothic, and the body horror was extremely mild for the most part.

The main character was quite charming in a quippy Whedon-esque kinda way, but they, and all the other characters, react to the events unfolding around them with such a casual “huh, would ya look at that” kind of quality that makes it very difficult for me as a reader to feel very invested or horrified myself. And the twist on Poe's original is pretty much a foregone conclusion from the first chapter, really, and the ending was a bit too rushed and pat for my liking.

I would definitely read other books by this author because I think I could enjoy their writing with better-managed expectations or a different setting, but this didn't scratch the itch I wanted it to scratch (which is more on me, I guess).