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The Fall of the House of Usher (1965)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1965)

Romance Fantasy Horror Literary Fiction Gothic Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe

Year: 1965
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
Print type: BOOK

Description:

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.