Fall of the House of Usher

"e;A dull, dark, and soundless day... where the clouds hung oppressively low."e;When an unnamed narrator arrives at the ancestral estate of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, he finds a house that seems to possess a life of its own. Roderick, suffering from a hypersensitivity of the senses and a profound "e;mental disorder,"e; lives in a state of perpetual terror alongside his dying twin sister...