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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/NetflixIf there’s anyone whose dialogue-driven horror can go toe to toe with Edgar Allen Poe, it’s Mike Flanagan. The savant of fear was already a big name in the genre with films like Absentia, Oculus, and Gerald's Game when Netflix scooped him in 2018. With hit series such as The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, Flanagan expanded his succinct screenplays into protracted theatrical musings on trauma as terror. Whi...

Mike Flanagan's latest series for Netflix is one of the creator's best: a sprawling, exciting adaptation of some of Poe's iconic works, updated for a new generation of terror.

In Netflix's "The Fall of the House of Usher", Mike Flanagan drops a reference to one of his movies, "Gerald's Game".

It should be getting harder for Roderick to ignore the circumstances of his children’s deaths. And yet! Meanwhile, Verna is embedding herself with the Usher children and (presumably) setting them up for future downfalls.

For his annual Netflix horror series, Mike Flanagan's "Fall of the House of Usher" riffs on Edgar Allan Poe while taking aim at self-serving greed.

Like Succession, The Fall of the House of Usher focuses on a grotesque family dynasty. But in this story, they actually get their comeuppance.

Ravens, death masques, pendulums, and Mark Hamill's Pym Reaper. Poe fans are going to love Mike Flanagan's latest horror masterpiece.

Mike Flanagan's latest horror series for Netflix draws from the prolific, spooky works of Edgar Allan Poe. Here's how.

New Mike Flanagan horror series is inspired by Poe’s 1839 short story of the same name

Here are the big Edgar Allan Poe literary references in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' from 'The Raven' to 'The Tell-Tale Heart' to 'The Pit and the Pendulum.'