The Fall of the House of Usher is an American gothic horror drama television miniseries created and developed by Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy for Netflix. It is loosely based on the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe, as well as other works by the author. The series premiered on October 12, 2023.
The Fall of the House of Usher Quotes
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”
“When the curtain falls, Everyone takes a bow together”
Quotes from book
- “I know not how it was – but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” – The narrator describing the overwhelming feeling upon seeing the House of Usher.
- “I looked upon the scene before me – upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain – upon the bleak walls – upon the vacant eye-like windows.” – The narrator’s observations of the eerie surroundings.
- “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.” – The narrator setting the tone and atmosphere of the story.
- “In this mansion of gloom, I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks.” – The narrator deciding to stay at the House of Usher, despite the foreboding atmosphere.
- “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.” – The narrator sensing the pervasive sadness that haunts the House of Usher.
- “I looked upon the scene before me – upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain – upon the bleak walls – upon the vacant eye-like windows.” – The narrator’s observations of the eerie surroundings.
- “The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death.” – Describing the appearance of Madeline Usher’s body after her death.
- “I beheld her – upon the arrival of the evening at the house – I saw that the features of the face were those of my friend, the companion of my earliest boyhood.” – The narrator’s realization that Roderick and Madeline Usher are twins.
- “And now was heard again the low, sobbing murmur, and light sough; and at the same moment there fell a quick, sharp tap on the door. I placed my hand upon the solid fabric of the catacombs, and felt satisfied.” – The narrator’s final realization as he escapes the crumbling House of Usher.
- “And the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the ‘House of Usher.'” – The closing line of the story, describing the house sinking into the lake.
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