Edgar A. Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher…a creepy little
story of madness and the disintegration of sanity. Add a catatonic sister and the prospect of a
live entombment…along with a medievalesque tale of kings and dragons…and by
God, you have a tale from a master…
This beauty was originally published in 1839…and again, in
book form, in 1840…they differ. Poe
revised the story in 1840 for Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Both contain a
previous poem he had published called The
Haunted Palace. So if madness is
your thing (and nobody…I mean nobody does this topic like Poe)…then this story
is for you…
and…
Here is the tale as published in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque vol. I
