#the fall of the house of usher
Boy, the Cask Of Amontillado sure is Ushering in a new age of memes and making some other ones Fall out of style…
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
Director - Roger Corman, Cinematography - Floyd Crosby
“One candle left to burn now, before the darkness comes.”
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some music related to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
“Weber’s Last Waltz” by Carl Gottlieb Reissiger
His long, improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears. Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and amplification of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber.
“Usher-Waltz” by Nikita Koshkin
I have just spoken of that morbid condition of the auditory nerve which rendered all music intolerable to the sufferer, with the exception of certain effects of stringed instruments. It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances. But the fervid facility of his impromptus could not be so accounted for. They must have been, and were, in the notes, as well as in the words of his wild fantasias (for he not unfrequently accompanied himself with rimed verbal improvisations), the result of that intense mental collectedness and concentration to which I have previously alluded as observable only in particular moments of the highest artificial excitement.
