Theatre· Garches
La Chute de la maison Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which the narrator visits his ailing friend Roderick Usher at his decaying ancestral mansion. As Roderick and his twin sister Madeline succumb to madness and death, the house itself—seemingly sentient—finally crumbles into the tarn, symbolizing the extinction of the Usher family line.