Vast lands plagued the eerie surroundings with an unearthly chill. It was place that could send your very bones creaking with an unforeseen fabrication of age. "Twas a place that mirrored it's somber host, a man who had been left only with his delusional perception of evil. The house of Usher was a place most people would turn back from. Imagine yourself standing at a fork in the road, where one path was clear with the sun shinning; and not a single apparition of terror. On the other hand, you had a path that was clouded with an eerie fog, a turmoil of foliage flocking the sides as if the branches themselves would pull you in, dare you had gone onward.
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The fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe, did a very good job at making the reader imagine the scenery, with all it's horrifying splendor and decay of age. For the two main characters, Roderick and Madeline this house was home. It reflected the pain they suffered or perhaps they reflected the pain the house had suffered. For Poe, the house and the human's seemed to be one in the same. Roderick was slowly entering the stages of insanity with damaged hearing and a taste for only the plainest of foods, as his sister tried to fight her way out from under his crazed wing.
Terror, even this extreme which resulted in a delusional craze, is meaningless unless it is able to somehow illuminated with illustration of it's surroundings. Such as, dark music when something bad happens, or perhaps light classical music when good things happen. However in a book, the description of scenery may be the defining factor that consequently depicts what the reader may find much more horrifying or rather disappointing. Something that was extraordinarily described in this short story by Edgar Allen Poe. It made the story more real, making the embodiment of the imagination, come to life in in-visioning the on going horror.
As the reader strolls onward through the story, the imagery takes you on a journey through the dark rooms of a decrepit old mansion.
