The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne. —De Beranger During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.