Famous gothic writer’s ‘Fall of the House of Usher’ is all set to be shown on screen using a unique storytelling method through hand-drawn animation. With countless short stories, poems, and books such as ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841), ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ (1843), and ‘The Raven’ (1845), Poe has become a celebrated writer that is known to all. He mostly wrote tales of mystery and macabre, that has given birth to modern-day detective stories.
For those who are strangers to the story
‘Fall of the House of Usher’ was a short story by Poe published in 1839 and included in his collection ‘Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque’. The story revolves around Roderick Usher, a friend of the unnamed narrator, who suffers from an unknown disease like most of the writer’s characters. He seems to be hypersensitive to senses and is mostly preoccupied with the disturbing thought of his twin dying of catalepsy. Usher is convinced that the fear he feels will eventually kill him, and so it does, as what appears to be his sister’s ghost attacks Usher after he may have buried her alive. The story ends with the narrator telling the readers that the Usher’s house split into two and sank into the pool.
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Philip Glass’ Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) releases a cinematic approach to Poe’s short story, presenting it to the modern world. The ground-breaking creation tells the Victorian gothic horror story using stop-motion and hand-drawn animation. The music score is by Glass himself and the libretto by Arthur Yorkins. The opera will be placed within the story of a girl named Luna detained at the U.S border and will be starring Chelsea Basler, Jesse Darden, and Daniel Belcher. The film will be available to stream on the 29th of January on BLO’s OperaBoxTV.