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To
an
anomalous
species
of
terror
I
found
him
a
bounden
slave
.
"
I
shall
perish
,
"
said
he
,
"
I
must
perish
in
this
deplorable
folly
.
Thus
,
thus
,
and
not
otherwise
,
shall
I
be
lost
.
I
dread
the
events
of
the
future
,
not
in
themselves
,
but
in
their
results
.
I
shudder
at
the
thought
of
any
,
even
the
most
trivial
,
incident
,
which
may
operate
upon
this
intolerable
agitation
of
soul
.
I
have
,
indeed
,
no
abhorrence
of
danger
,
except
in
its
absolute
effect
--
in
terror
.
In
this
unnerved
,
in
this
pitiable
,
condition
I
feel
that
the
period
will
sooner
or
later
arrive
when
I
must
abandon
life
and
reason
together
,
in
some
struggle
with
the
grim
phantasm
,
FEAR
.
"
I
learned
,
moreover
,
at
intervals
,
and
through
broken
and
equivocal
hints
,
another
singular
feature
of
his
mental
condition
.
He
was
enchained
by
certain
superstitious
impressions
in
regard
to
the
dwelling
which
he
tenanted
,
and
whence
,
for
many
years
,
he
had
never
ventured
forth
--
in
regard
to
an
influence
whose
supposititious
force
was
conveyed
in
terms
too
shadowy
here
to
be
re-stated
--
an
influence
which
some
peculiarities
in
the
mere
form
and
substance
of
his
family
mansion
had
,
by
dint
of
long
sufferance
,
he
said
,
obtained
over
his
spirit
--
an
effect
which
the
physique
of
the
gray
walls
and
turrets
,
and
of
the
dim
tarn
into
which
they
all
looked
down
,
had
,
at
length
,
brought
about
upon
the
morale
of
his
existence
.
He
admitted
,
however
,
although
with
hesitation
,
that
much
of
the
peculiar
gloom
which
thus
afflicted
him
could
be
traced
to
a
more
natural
and
far
more
palpable
origin
--
to
the
severe
and
long-continued
illness
--
indeed
to
the
evidently
approaching
dissolution
--
of
a
tenderly
beloved
sister
,
his
sole
companion
for
long
years
,
his
last
and
only
relative
on
earth
.
"
Her
decease
,
"
he
said
,
with
a
bitterness
which
I
can
never
forget
,
"
would
leave
him
(
him
the
hopeless
and
the
frail
)
the
last
of
the
ancient
race
of
the
Ushers
.
"
While
he
spoke
,
the
lady
Madeline
(
for
so
was
she
called
)
passed
slowly
through
a
remote
portion
of
the
apartment
,
and
,
without
having
noticed
my
presence
,
disappeared
.
I
regarded
her
with
an
utter
astonishment
not
unmingled
with
dread
;
and
yet
I
found
it
impossible
to
account
for
such
feelings
.
A
sensation
of
stupor
oppressed
me
as
my
eyes
followed
her
retreating
steps
.
When
a
door
,
at
length
,
closed
upon
her
,
my
glance
sought
instinctively
and
eagerly
the
countenance
of
the
brother
;
but
he
had
buried
his
face
in
his
hands
,
and
I
could
only
perceive
that
a
far
more
than
ordinary
wanness
had
overspread
the
emaciated
fingers
through
which
trickled
many
passionate
tears
.
The
disease
of
the
lady
Madeline
had
long
baffled
the
skill
of
her
physicians
.
A
settled
apathy
,
a
gradual
wasting
away
of
the
person
,
and
frequent
although
transient
affections
of
a
partially
cataleptical
character
were
the
unusual
diagnosis
.
Hitherto
she
had
steadily
borne
up
against
the
pressure
of
her
malady
,
and
had
not
betaken
herself
finally
to
bed
;
but
on
the
closing
in
of
the
evening
of
my
arrival
at
the
house
,
she
succumbed
(
as
her
brother
told
me
at
night
with
inexpressible
agitation
)
to
the
prostrating
power
of
the
destroyer
;
and
I
learned
that
the
glimpse
I
had
obtained
of
her
person
would
thus
probably
be
the
last
I
should
obtain
--
that
the
lady
,
at
least
while
living
,
would
be
seen
by
me
no
more
.
For
several
days
ensuing
,
her
name
was
unmentioned
by
either
Usher
or
myself
;
and
during
this
period
I
was
busied
in
earnest
endeavors
to
alleviate
the
melancholy
of
my
friend
.
We
painted
and
read
together
,
or
I
listened
,
as
if
in
a
dream
,
to
the
wild
improvisations
of
his
speaking
guitar
.
And
thus
,
as
a
closer
and
still
closer
intimacy
admitted
me
more
unreservedly
into
the
recesses
of
his
spirit
,
the
more
bitterly
did
I
perceive
the
futility
of
all
attempt
at
cheering
a
mind
from
which
darkness
,
as
if
an
inherent
positive
quality
,
poured
forth
upon
all
objects
of
the
moral
and
physical
universe
in
one
unceasing
radiation
of
gloom
.
I
shall
ever
bear
about
me
a
memory
of
the
many
solemn
hours
I
thus
spent
alone
with
the
master
of
the
House
of
Usher
.
Yet
I
should
fail
in
any
attempt
to
convey
an
idea
of
the
exact
character
of
the
studies
,
or
of
the
occupations
,
in
which
he
involved
me
,
or
led
me
the
way
.
An
excited
and
highly
distempered
ideality
threw
a
sulphureous
lustre
over
all
.
His
long
improvised
dirges
will
ring
forever
in
my
ears
.
Among
other
things
,
I
hold
painfully
in
mind
a
certain
singular
perversion
and
amplification
of
the
wild
air
of
the
last
waltz
of
Von
Weber
.
From
the
paintings
over
which
his
elaborate
fancy
brooded
,
and
which
grew
,
touch
by
touch
,
into
vagueness
at
which
I
shuddered
the
more
thrillingly
,
because
I
shuddered
knowing
not
why
--
from
these
paintings
(
vivid
as
their
images
now
are
before
me
)
I
would
in
vain
endeavor
to
educe
more
than
a
small
portion
which
should
lie
within
the
compass
of
merely
written
words
.
By
the
utter
simplicity
,
by
the
nakedness
of
his
designs
,
he
arrested
and
overawed
attention
.
If
ever
mortal
painted
an
idea
,
that
mortal
was
Roderick
Usher
.
For
me
at
least
,
in
the
circumstances
then
surrounding
me
,
there
arose
out
of
the
pure
abstractions
which
the
hypochondriac
contrived
to
throw
upon
his
canvas
,
an
intensity
of
intolerable
awe
,
no
shadow
of
which
felt
I
ever
yet
in
the
contemplation
of
the
certainly
glowing
yet
too
concrete
reveries
of
Fuseli
.
One
of
the
phantasmagoric
conceptions
of
my
friend
,
partaking
not
so
rigidly
of
the
spirit
of
abstraction
,
may
be
shadowed
forth
,
although
feebly
,
in
words
.
A
small
picture
presented
the
interior
of
an
immensely
long
and
rectangular
vault
or
tunnel
,
with
low
walls
,
smooth
,
white
,
and
without
interruption
or
device
.
Certain
accessory
points
of
the
design
served
well
to
convey
the
idea
that
this
excavation
lay
at
an
exceeding
depth
below
the
surface
of
the
earth
.
No
outlet
was
observed
in
any
portion
of
its
vast
extent
,
and
no
torch
or
other
artificial
source
of
light
was
discernible
;
yet
a
flood
of
intense
rays
rolled
throughout
,
and
bathed
the
whole
in
a
ghastly
and
inappropriate
splendor
.
