Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales is the definitive collection of Gothic fiction and Macabre Romanticism.The Fall of the House of Usher, published in 1839, is the definitive masterpiece of Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic fiction. It explores the psychological and physical disintegration of a family and their ancestral home, blending themes of isolation, madness, and "the sublime."