Author:  Edgar Allan Poe
Online reading time: 1 hr.
Published:  1839
Original language:  English
Type:  Story , Novel
Literary Genre: Drama, Horror, Fiction, Mystic Romance , Psychological Romance

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher is a classic Gothic story. Roderick Usher, the last scion of an ancient family, invites a friend to stay at the family estate. But even the arrival of his friend can not lift his spirits: Roderick’s sister is seriously ill, and her days are numbered. A few days after her death and burial he learns something terrible: his sister was really buried alive…..