The Fall of the House of Usher

audiobook (Abridged)

By Edgar Allan Poe

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this audiobook includes music and non music version, has music the narrator knows very little about his friend. Upon arriving, the narrator describes the Usher family mansion in great detail, focusing on its most fantastic features and its unearthly atmosphere. Shortly after entering, the narrator is greeted by Roderick, who displays a number of strange symptoms. He claims his senses are especially acute: therefore, he cannot wear clothes of certain textures or eat particularly flavourful foods, and his eyes are bothered by even the faintest lights.
Within a few hours of the narrator's arrival, Roderick begins to share some of his theories about his family. Much to the narrator's surprise, Roderick claims that the Usher mansion is sentient and that it exercises some degree of control over its inhabitants. He declares that his illness is the product of "a constitutional and a family evil."
The Fall of the House of Usher