GOTHIC OPERA You will notice in the first five paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" that the storyteller's description of an ancient decomposing castle, surrounded by a fetid and motionless moat, expertly sets the scene for a gothic tale. Speaking of the mansion, the narrator feels "an utter depression [...]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:02PM on January 24, 2013