Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror vs The Fall of the House of Usher: Which Should You Read?

Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror Robert Donald Spector · 1963 468 pages · ≈ 8 h 40 m · Moderate

The castle of Otranto / Horace Walpole The Old English Baron / Clara Reeve Mistrust or Blanche and Osbright / Matthew Gregory Lewis The heir of Mondolfo / Mary Shelley The white old maid / Nathaniel Hawthorn The fall…

The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe · 1704 ★★★★☆ 3.8 36 pages · ≈ 40 min · Demanding

“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.”

"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…