<Tr> <Th> Published in </Th> <Td> Burton's Gentleman's Magazine </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> September 1839 </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 . </P> <P> The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help . As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the adjacent lake . </P>

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