... . The whole thing happening in the story will be presented as a dream analysis of the narrator. In addition, the Gothic tradition in literature, Dark Romanticism and the challenging effects this genre of writing has on human mind, whether for the writer or the reader of horror stories will be debated. This study wants to conclude how Poe's hard life in childhood ... Fall of the House of Usher'' (1834) has all of the Gothic ingredients. Moreover, Poe is particularly important to the ongoing influence of the Gothic on contemporary literature, moving the genre from an external to an interna...

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