katherine turned, she said, to the fictional works of the then popular 19th century southern author, edgar allan poe. but with her nerves already frayed she decided that she is going to avoid his most fearsome pieces, as she puts it. and perhaps, we don't know, but perhaps she chose the fall of the house of usher. well, it's not a particularly grizzley story. it's not filled as are some other of the poe stories with grim supernatural horrors, which might if they distort -- short story -- from and selling events around them. that's where begins community recall, poe as narrator is paying a visit to a friend. and man in robert usher who is the heir of an old wealthy and venerable family, and he's the current master of its imposing usher mansion. and the first glance, this mansion's massive evidence, says a narrator, gave little token of instability. but it's seeming solidity he goes on to say can see old a barely perceptible fishery that ran down through it from its roof to its foundation. pose a narrator, after spending some time sitting with usher, suddenly hears the mansions hidden structural fault