Short Stories (Berenice / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Morella / Oval Portrait) vs The Fall of the House of Usher: Which Should You Read?

Short Stories (Berenice / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Morella / Oval Portrait) Edgar Allan Poe · 1999 104 pages · ≈ 1 h 56 m · Moderate

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…