The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix Miniseries)
The Fall of the House of Usher Genre: Horror Showrunner: Mike Flanagan Released: 2023 Edgar Allen Poe stands alongside H.P. Lovecraft as both an exemplar and standard bearer of the subgenre of gothic horror. His poems and short stories are drenched in a luscious, macabre atmosphere and complemented by vivid, flowing prose. His bibliography is extensive, as is his impact on pop culture, so it makes sense that pop culture continues to propagate his works almost two hundred years later. The latest advance in this program of cultural domination was Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher, a miniseries created by rising horror star Mike Flanagan. Usher is not a direct adaptation of any one Poe story or poem, rather it is a new story set in the current day that draws characters, plot points, and motifs from across his works to create a kind of greatest-hits compendium of all things E.A.P. What it also is is disappointing, especially for a Poe fan...