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The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1839
Pages
Pages 15

Summoned by a nervous boyhood friend to his cracked ancestral mansion, a visitor watches brother, twin sister and house share one collapse, and barely outruns it.

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.
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe

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