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The first rule of Gothic fiction is: When a friend invites you to their empty house in the middle of nowhere through a missive laden with implications, dont go. Alas, Francis (Aiken) never got the memo, and so travels to the midcentury edifice that is home to his childhood friend, the pale and dissolute Jean Paul Lauret (Adler). Meanwhile sister Vivian Lauret (Basso), for whom Francis seemingly holds some less-than-platonic yearnings, has locked herself in her room, only emerging at night to aw...

THE BLOODHOUND Review–Edgar Allan Poe’s Macabrery in the Modern Age By Paul Grammatico Written by Patrick Picard In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator of this short story colors the moss-ridden, crumbling of an ancient mansion known as the House of Usher.  The narrator responds to a letter and visits his boyhood friend Roderick Usher, who he has been estranged from for many years.  As he journey...