House Of Usher - The Autumn Dream album flac

The Fall of the House of Usher" is a narrative short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine before being included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story is a work of gothic fiction and includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.

While the relationship between him and Roderick is never fully explained, the reader does learn that they were boyhood friends.

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I had learned, too, the very remarkable fact, that the stem of the Usher race, all time-honoured as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain. Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Its principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. I know not how it was-but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart-an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it-I paused to think-what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher?

An unnamed narrator arrives at the House of Usher, a very creepy mansion owned by his boyhood friend Roderick Usher. Roderick has been sick lately, afflicted by a disease of the mind, and wrote to his friend, our narrator, asking for help. The narrator spends some time admiring the awesomely spooky Usher edifice. While doing so, he explains that Roderick and his sister are the last of the Usher bloodline, and that the family is famous for its dedication to the arts (music, painting, literature, et. Eventually, the narrator heads inside to see his friend.

He approaches the Usher estate and mansion at twilight on an autumn evening. The house is utterly desolate and terrible in its appearance, with empty windows and depressing thoughts emanating from the very atmosphere around it. The narrator is unnerved by this mystery and thinks at first it is the mere association of dark and bleak objects that cause his sinking of the heart. The house is dream-like, with its discolored fungus and crumbling walls. He notices in particular a fissure from the roof of the house that zigzags down the walls to the pool in front. Riding over a causeway, he approaches the house where a servant takes his horse.

Band Name Grey November. Album Name The Fall of the House of Usher. Released date 01 November 2011. Labels Self-Released. Music StyleFuneral Doom. Members owning this album0. 1. Pendant Toute une Journée d'Automne. 5. La Chute de la Maison Usher.

Vocals – Lene Lovich. Vocals – Peter Hammill. Vocals – Sarah Jane Morris. Vocals – Herbert Gronemeyer. This work is intended as an opera so its divided in Six acts each one with its respective aria name. Act One-The Road To The House Of Usher: songs 1-2 Act Two-Within The House Of Usher: songs 3-7 Act Three-Immediately Following: songs 8-11 Act Four-The Following Morning: songs 11-15 Act Five-Dawn The Next Day: song 16 Act Six-Three Days Later: song 17-21. Andy Bell appears by permission of Mute Records.