Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 377 - The House is a Vampire!
My name is George Bartley, and for the rest of this series, I want to really look into a house that might not make it into Better Homes and Gardens - but is often classified as Edgar Allan Poe’s greatest work. The story is definitely Gothic in tone, complicated from a psychological standpoint, and a great example of how Poe dealt with vampiric characters and themes.
Madeline and Roderick Usher are both vampiric-like characters that seem to take the life out of each other. And even the house in which they live - with its eye-like windows - can be seen as a vampiric character.
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