The Fall of the House of Usher

In a decaying castle surrounded by a dank, mirrored lake live the morbidly nervous Roderick Usher and his sickly twin sister, Madeline. Their tale is told and dimly comprehended by the unnamed narrator, a boyhood friend whom Roderick has summoned. When Madeline soon dies—or seems to die—they entomb her body. On a stormy night, cracking and ripping sounds and a shriek from below convince the panicky Roderick that We have put her living into the tomb! The shrouded, emaciated figure of Madeline appears at the door of Roderick's book-strewn study, falls upon him, and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse.