Publisher's Synopsis
Follow the macabre events that sweep the narrator into the haunted world of Roderick Usher-a morbid recluse and slave to fear-whose descent into madness inevitably brings the great House of Usher to its most sinister fate. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
