'The Fall of the House of Usher' Is Wickedly Macabre TV Even Edgar Allan Poe Would Be Proud Of
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. While some were more s