There have been numerous adaptations of the story to other media, the best known of which remains the 1960 film House of Usher, directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price. The vengeful Madeline manages to escape from her coffin and the vault and goes in search of the brother responsible for her premature burial. However, in the story's climax, it is revealed that Madeline was not yet dead when she was placed in the casket. Roderick has her body placed in a coffin and taken to a vault beneath the house. To help recover his spirits, he summons his old friend, the story's unnamed narrator, to come to visit him. Partly due to his sister's illness and partly, he believes, due to the negative influence of the old mansion in which he lives, Roderick Usher has fallen into a deep melancholy.

Madeline Usher has been ill for a long time and is not expected to live much longer.

For many years, they have lived together in the ancient mansion which is their ancestral family home. Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline are the only two surviving members of the aristocratic Usher family. The story takes place in an unnamed country, although references to peasants, feudalism and a centuries-old house imply that it is not set in the United States. The story includes the poem ' The Haunted Palace' which Poe had previously had published separately in the April 1839 edition of the Baltimore Museum magazine. It was published again in a slightly modified form in Poe's 1840 anthology Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. It was first published in September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' is a short story by the American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. Front cover of a comic book adaptation of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' published by Dark House Comics in June 2013.

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