The Fall of the House of Usher

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"The Fall of the House of Usher"
Short story by Edgar Allan Poe
First appearance in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (September 1839)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Horror, Gothic
Publication
Published inBurton's Gentleman's Magazine
Publication dateSeptember 1839

"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.[1] The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.[2]

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