The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Follow the macabre events that sweep the narrator into the haunted world of Roderick Usher-a morbid recluse and slave to fear-whose descent into madness inevitably brings the great House of ...
Follow the macabre events that sweep the narrator into the haunted world of Roderick Usher-a morbid recluse and slave to fear-whose descent into madness inevitably brings the great House of Usher to its most sinister fate.
The narrator has receives an odd letter from an old friend, Roderick Usher, requesting his presence.
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a narrative short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine before being included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840.
The story tells of a mysterious house and an unnamed narrator's horrific experience with it. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents.
A classic horror tale from the iconic gothic author and the inspiration for the Netflix series from the creator of The Haunting of Hill House.
Though relying on already established characters and themes from his previous tales, Poe describes the workings of the psyche, the realm of dreams, and even the lands of madness in great detail, securing the story its rightful place and ...
A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious.
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", a visitor arrives at the sinister Usher mansion to find Roderick Usher in deep despair over the illness of his sister, Madeline.