Whisper House Press

Book: What Feasts at Night

Author: T. Kingfisher

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Publication Date: February 2024

Capone’s Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ of 5⭐

After rating Kingfisher’s “What Moves the Dead” as my top book of the year in 2023, I was excited to read its followup, “What Feasts at Night.” I was not disappointed.

Early 20th c. Alex Easton returns from the big city to a hunting cabin passed down to him by his family to find an eerie silence has beset the place and its caretaker has disappeared. While searching for all logical explanations for the disturbing turns of events after his arrival, Easton finds himself threatened by the same forces that overwhelmed the old caretaker.

Kingfisher is a master of mood-setting wordplay, of dark humor and cheery characterization, and of unspooling dream sequences as though I were living them myself. I found myself unsure what was real and what was imaginary, what was rational and what was believable, and what I’d be thinking in Easton’s shoes. I finished the short volume quickly and am telling everyone I know to look out for this book.