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source: collage by Tonny Rod - Poe's image: PNGWing (artist not found) - background: detail from "The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe", an illustration by Mario Jodra

*About the author and his novel (Wikipedia):
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, best known for his poetry and short stories. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature.
Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Among his most famous and well known works there is "The Fall of the House of Usher" (a work of Gothic fiction), a short novel, first published in September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.
*The movies:
From 1928 to 2020, at least nine adaptations of the romance were made to the cinema.
*The musics:
There are many songs and musics about "Usher" on YouTube, including "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1976), the debut album of the band "The Alan Parsons Project", entirely dedicated to Poe's stories, with two tracks about "The House of Usher".
*Other stuff:
We can find, on the web, a lot of items related to Poe's story, such as video animations, comics magazines, miniatures, posters, dolls and video works (on YouTube).