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“Poe is so central to my idea of the Gothic…It’s about an unnamed narrator who is visiting a friend, Roderick Usher, and Roderick is in a bit of a pickle. He has a sister who is very ill, and he’s stuck in this forlorn house out in the English countryside, and it’s literally falling apart around him. This is very much a story in which the psychology of the character is manifested in the house itself. In fact, when the narrator first arrives at the doorstep, he makes a remark that there is a fine fissure starting at the base of the house, running up the side of it – which tells you where this is going to go right away.” Read more...
Nathan Ballingrud, Novelist
