It’s not precisely the Edgar Allan Poe short story that emerges in House of Usher, but it’s a reasonably diverting and handsomely mounted variation. In patronizingly romanticizing Poe’s ...

The Fall of the House of Usher, created by Mike Flanagan, was one of Netflix's latest hits in the horror and mystery genre.

Or indeed from 30 years earlier when, as one of the opening paragraphs tells us, Kate and Julia Morkan first came to live in the “dark gaunt house on Usher’s Island”. If anything ...

What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon ...

Mike Flanagan returns to form in The Fall of the House of Usher, delivering a deliciously macabre and contemporary reimagining of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Classic tales marry with modern ...