Plus, at the point when I first read it, I was already over the whole buried alive thing. If I am honest though, “The Fall of the House of Usher” always read as one of Poe’s least interesting works to me because it reads as a perfunctory horror story where one thing must follow the other and then we have this ultra-cheesy macabre ending in which corpses crumble to the floor just because. Is Roderick really ill? Is he ill because the house makes him so or is that a self-fulfilling prophesy connected to the Ushers? The House of Usher can be taken as the literal house or as the “cursed” Usher lineage the story divided in actual reality of a haunted house and the psychological terrors that could or could not be directly linked to it. The thing about Poe’s original (and probably most of Poe’s work) is that it’s an interesting combination of factual horror and psychological horror. It follows an unnamed narrator as he visits his friend Roderick Usher and witnesses Roderick’s (as well as his sister’s, and his house’s) mental and corporeal deterioration in what is often described as a melancholy, macabre piece of gothic fiction. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories. Why did I read this book: That cover! The prospect of a spooky Halloween read and in interest in reading The Fall of the House of Usher from the sister’s perspective.
How did I get this book: Review copy via Netgalley In the end, can Madeline keep her own sanity and bring the house down? The Fall is a literary psychological thriller, reimagining Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Fall of the House of Usher. Her only chance lies in destroying the house. Madeline’s life-revealed through short bursts of memory-has hinged around her desperate plan to escape, to save herself and her brother. Ushers can never leave their house, a house that haunts and is haunted, a house that almost seems to have a mind of its own. She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding.
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