Classic & Older Gothic

The Fall of the House of Usher

by Edgar Allan Poe

A visitor arrives at a crumbling mansion to find his old friend trapped in a state of morbid terror, and his twin sister dying of a mysterious malady. Poe's masterpiece of gothic atmosphere — dread built from architecture, heredity, and the refusal of the dead to stay buried.

More Classic & Older Gothic

• The Hound of the Baskervilles — Anne Perry
• Magician's Gambit — David Eddings
• The Vile Village — Brett Helquist
• The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• Sophie's World — Paulette Møller
• The Idiot — Frederick Whishaw
• Othello — William Shakespeare

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