After reading "The Fall of the House of Usher" you can really see what modern day haunted houses took from this story. The stereotypes of a haunted house that are in this story are things like the creepy, shiver down your spine, feel you get when you just look at the house. Not to mention that there's a strange glow and a dark creepy lake next to it. Oh and an underground tomb. Poe turns regular objects into seeming creepy. I mean if he decided to go as far as to describe a dust particle it would probably be creepy too. The description of the mansion made me think of the Disney movie
The Haunted Mansion which shows how this story inspired the modern day haunted house.
Afterward by Edith Wharton definitely fits the definition of an American Gothic. The story has immense amounts of suspense in trying to figure out where or when the ghost is going to show up. I think this story teaches people that getting what you wished for isn't always a good thing, especially when you have no clue when or where that thing is going to show up. Not to mention when the thing you wished for was a ghost.
yes the fall of the house of Usher, does remind me of haunted houses I have gone to which are really fun and scary but the way this house was described in an eerie way lets your imagination run a little scared and the chills come with it as well.
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