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“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe is a typical horror story. ... Every detail of this story, from the opening description of the day of which the narrator traveled to the house, to the unearthly storm which accompanies Madeline’s return from the tomb, all emit a sense of horror. The concept horror is created by the supernatural destruction of the house. ...
Poe’s gloomy and horrifying descriptive atmosphere of the story, illustrated by the depiction of the house, are a perfect combination for the setting of this story. As the narrator, Poe uses examples such as “During the whole of a dull, dark, and, soundless day” and “the clouds hung oppressively low over the heavens” to fully describe the atmosphere as the narrator is approaching the house.(264) The reader makes a stereotypical depiction of the house when the narrator says:
Within view of the melancholy House of Usher, I know not how it was- but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I looked upon the scene before me- upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain- upon the bleak walls- upon the vacant eye-like windows- upon a few sedges- and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees. (264)
Once inside of the house the narrator adds to the readers imagination by making references to the “tapestries of the walls” and the “ebony blackness of the floors” (267).
Approximate Word count = 1238
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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