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The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
First Published
1965
Subjects
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
tarns
Fiction, horror
Roman type
Artists' books
Description
"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.