<P> As the narrator reads of the knight's forcible entry into the dwelling, cracking and ripping sounds are heard somewhere in the house . When the dragon is described as shrieking as it dies, a shriek is heard, again within the house . As he relates the shield falling from off the wall, a reverberation, metallic and hollow, can be heard . Roderick becomes increasingly hysterical, and eventually exclaims that these sounds are being made by his sister, who was in fact alive when she was entombed . </P> <P> Additionally, Roderick somehow knew that she was alive . The bedroom door is then blown open to reveal Madeline standing there . She falls on her brother, and both land on the floor as corpses . The narrator then flees the house, and, as he does so, notices a flash of moonlight behind him which causes him to turn back, in time to see the moon shining through the suddenly widened crack . As he watches, the House of Usher splits in two and the fragments sink into the tarn . </P> <P> "The Fall of the House of Usher" was first published in September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine . It was slightly revised in 1840 for the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque . It contains within it Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace", which had earlier been published separately in the April 1839 issue of the Baltimore Museum magazine . </P> <P> In 1928, Éditions Narcisse, predecessor to the Black Sun Press, published a limited edition of 300 numbered copies with illustrations by Alastair . </P>

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