... one of his boyhood companions, and the anonymous and mystified nerve of its proprietor, Roderick Usher. This mythic tale, and Poe's other terror short stories alike, aims at arousing readers' sense of inner disgust or terror, as Poe himself stated in his preface to "Tales of the Grotesque ... specify, Lady Madeline is a parallel of Roderick Usher; the twin sister is the identical "ghost " to him and haunted him, resulting in his insanity and death. Likewise, Roderick Usher could be deemed as a doppelganger of the narrator. Upon entering the mansion, the narrator's loss of reason was ... ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate