Edgar Allan Poe 27 min read

Through a dreary autumn country the narrator rides to the melancholy House of Usher, where his friend Roderick and his dying sister Madeline waste away amid an air of insufferable gloom.

Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 story is a foundational masterpiece of Gothic horror. Atmospheric, dread-soaked, unforgettable. Read it for one of the greatest horror tales ever written, a crumbling mansion, a doomed brother and sister, and a mounting terror that culminates in one of literature's most famous endings.

In its time

Published in 1839, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

27 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).