"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The story is about an unnamed narrator who visits the house of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, on a "dull, dark, and soundless day". The house is gloomy and mysterious, and the narrator observes that it seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. Roderick Usher is suffering from a mental illness, and he claims that the Usher mansion is sentient and that it exercises some degree of control over its inhabitants. The story is a Gothic tale that possesses the quintessential features of the genre, including a haunted house, dreary landscape, mysterious sickness, and doubled personality. The story ends with the collapse of the house and the death of Roderick and his twin sister, Madeline.

It is worth noting that there are several adaptations of "The Fall of the House of Usher" in different media, including film, television, and opera. For example, there is an animated short film narrated by Christopher Lee, an eight-episode limited series on Netflix, and several operatic versions composed by Claude Debussy, Philip Glass, and Peter Hammill.