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.
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The Fall of the House of 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, tarns, Fiction, horror, Roman typePeople
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Fall of the House of Usher: With Original Annotation
2021, Independently Published
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Fall of the House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe by Worm Books, Annotated
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Nov 29, 2019, Independently Published, Independently published
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The Fall of the House of Usher
May 04, 2019, Independently published, Independently Published
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La caida de la casa Usher
Aug 26, 2018, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Fall of the House of Usher: A short story
Feb 23, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Fall of the House of Usher: first published in 1839
Feb 25, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Oct 19, 2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The fall of the house of Usher/La chute de la mansion Usher: Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue
Apr 26, 2016, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Sep 09, 2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Sep 09, 2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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The Fall of the House of Usher
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The Fall of the House of Usher [EasyRead Large Edition]
November 1, 2006, ReadHowYouWant.com
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El Hundimiento De La Casa Usher / The Collapse of the House of Usher (Antologia)
April 5, 2005, Edaf S.A.
Paperback
in Spanish
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The Fall of the House of Usher
December 30, 2005, Kessinger Publishing
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in English
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The Fall of the House of Usher (Classic Frights)
April 1997, Books of Wonder
Paperback
in English
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The Fall of the House of Usher (Spencer Library)
July 1994, Spencer Library
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in English
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The fall of the house of Usher: the best of Edgar Allan Poe.
1987, Star Books
in English
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The fall of the House of Usher: the best of Edgar Allan Poe.
1986, W.H. Allen, Ebury Publishing
in English
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Fall of the House of Usher
August 1983, Buccaneer Books
Hardcover
in English
0899664636 9780899664637
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The Fall of the House of Usher
September 1979, I. E. Clark
Paperback
in English
0886800498 9780886800499
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- The Fall of the House of Usher - Wikipedia
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar ... - Poestories.com
- https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section3/
- 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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