The Fall of the House of Usher
First published AD 1839, written in English
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.
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Later works that draw on The Fall of the House of Usher.
- The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury, AD 1950
In 'Usher II', one of the chronicles, a man builds Poe's House of Usher on Mars to take revenge on the censors who burned books like Poe's, and brings it down on them as Poe's house fell.
Source: Wikipedia, The Fall of the House of Usher
“The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 collection of stories by Ray Bradbury, contains a novella called "Usher II," a homage to Poe.” Read it there
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