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The Fall of the House of Usher in Dark Reflections
The narrator visits Roderick Usher at the ancestral mansion to aid him as his sister Madeline lies near death. Usher reveals a fragile mind and a theory of sentience for vegetables tied to the family line, while the decaying house and atmosphere mirror their doomed fate.
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Gouverneur Morris
Edgar Allan Poe
House of Usher
Roderick Usher
Heaven
Asher
Madeline
Usher
Donjon
Denjon
Launcelot Canning
Ethelred
Kethelred
Paher