DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
LA CAÍDA DE LA CASA USHER
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An edition of The Fall of the House of Usher
(1900)
LA CAÍDA DE LA CASA USHER
by Edgar Allan Poe
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"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.
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American fiction (fictional works by one author), short stories (single author), American Horror tales, burial vaults, catalepsy, dragons, Fiction, gothic fiction, hermitages, heroic romances, horror, horror tales, hysteria, knights, maces, psychogenic death, short stories, tarnsPeople
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- The Fall of the House of Usher - Britannica
- https://www.edgarallanpoe.nl/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher/
- The Fall of the House of Usher - American English
- xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/fall
- eapoe.org/works/info/pt025
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