The Fall of the House of Usher

Name: The Fall of the House of Usher
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Gothic story about a decaying mansion and descent into madness and decay

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author and poet whose horror and mystery fiction laid the groundwork for much of science fiction, horror, and detective fiction. His stories of premature burial, strange science, and cosmic imagination anticipated H.P. Lovecraft and countless successors. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is a proto-SF adventure novel.

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