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Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) The Fall of the House of Usher, published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.
Philadelphia: William E. Burton, August-December, 1839.
First edition, octavo, five issues of the magazines bound together with Poe's story in the September issue; bound in modern half leather with marbled paper boards; staining to contents; 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.
Few can easily countenance the terrifying premise of Poe's indelible tale of entrapment and guilt. Uniting the almost universal human dread of tightly confined spaces with the prospect of inadvertently torturing and slowly smothering a beloved kinsman, the story plunges any caring reader into a nightmarish abyss, as promised by the title.
