Entry #4

As Usher explains how his sister is alive, she appears at the doorway. She jumps and stabs him, while our narrator sprints out of there. He finally escapes the house and looking back he sees the crack that he saw when he first entered gradually enlarging. It gets bigger and bigger, a whirlwind starts circling around it. The house eventually crumbles to the ground and "close[es] sullenly and silently over the fragments of the House of Usher."

Entry #3

The narrator continues to read "Mad Trist" by Sir Launcelot Canning, and as he reads a passage about someone screaming he hears screaming. In fact he starts to hear a a lot of commotion, including sounds of metal on metal after he had just read a passage where a brass shield fell to tha ground and made a loud sound. But Usher is not disturbed by any of this and soon comes clean about these happenings. He explains that his sister was not dead, after all, and he, with the help of our narrator as well, entombed her alive!

Entry #2

Our narrator, enters this mansion. As Mr. Usher greets him however, the narrator is stunned how much Usher has changed. He looked older but that's not all, he looked sickly and pallid as well. Usher told him that he has been having some family problems, to say the least. He also had been having some troubles with his own health. He has superstitions that make him stay in the house too. All of this, he said could be traced to back to his beloved sister, Lady Madeline's death. He then asks him to help him "bury" her. They put her in her coffin down in the basement, in their vault. Then a horrible storm stikes and he starts to read a story to take it off their minds.

"The Fall of the House of Usher"- Edgar Allen Poe

Entry #1

The story starts out with our narrator riding on horseback to a spooky mansion which he calls "The House of Usher", he does not know how that this is the exact mansion, but he can just feel it. We then learn of a letter he had received from Roderick Usher, who the narrator was friends with since childhood. Mr. Usher had told the narrator that he needed to see him; this letter was filled with so much "heart" that the narrator, without hesitation decided to go see Mr. Usher immediately. As he rode up closer to the house he could sense the Usher family somehow, "It was an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees[.]" Lastly, he noticed what state the house itself was in, with fungi covering it and a "zig-zag" crack starting at the roof.

11/14

Entry #2 (end)

Bedloe still thinks that he is dreaming, but after various tests he discovered that he was awake. He did not feel that he was asleep at all. As he was descending into this place he suddenly felt that he needed to be here, and to par-take in whatever was happening. When he arrived at the heart of the city, there was massive commotion and fighting going on. He joined the weaker group and started fighting for a reason he did not know. Then he rushed into the middle of the battle, and overwhelmed by the other party, was struck on his "right-temple" and "killed". He felt dead for some time and actually looked over his corpse. But was soon motioned down the path which he came. When he came to the part of the trail where he saw the hyena he "experienced a violent shock" and regained the sense of being in his body. After Bedloe finished his story Dr.Templeton showed them a water color painting. the picture was dated 1780 and was of Templeton's dead friend, "Mr. Oldeb", who looked remarkably similar to Bedloe. After a week had gone by, Augustus "Bedlo" was pronounced dead in the newspaper. He had been suffering from a terrible fever, and when the Dr. Templeton appplied leeches to cure him he accidentally applied a "venomous vermicular sangsues", he died shortly after. But when the narrator asked the editor of the paper why he spelled Bedloe, "Bedlo" the editorjust said that it was a typo. The narrator noticed, however, that "Bedlo" spelled Oldeb backwards!

"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains"- Edgar Allen Poe

11/11
Entry #1

We learn of a man named, Augustus Bedloe. The narrator says that he is a very interesting man with many peculiarities. The narrator then tells a story of when Bedloe left one morning and didn't come back until late at night. Bedloe says that he was exploring the mountains, when he came upon a gorge. It became very foggy and he couldn't even see where he was going. Suddenly, he saw a hyena chasing a half-naked man, who was banging some sort of drum. He thought he was dreaming so he tried to wake himself up. But then he became aware that he was stading on the edge of a cliff, and saw a massive civilization down below.

11/9 Entry #3 (end)

The narrator was still disturbed by the cat. He be came even moody, angry and irritable. One day, as him and his wife were going down into the cellar the cat got in his way and since he especially angry at the cat he picked up an axe, but as he was swinging down to kill it his wife grabbed his arm. He suddenly became agitated with her and he made the decision to kill her instead. He decided to dispose of her body by loosing the wall-boards and walling it up. After, he did this he also had not seen the cat for three days. He was very much relieved that he wouldn't have to endure that "beast" anymore. BUt on the fourth day the police came by to investigate. He was very calm, even when they went down to inspect the cellar. A the officers were leaving however, he heard a screaming sound. He couldn't take it, he tore the wall-boards off exposing the body, but also revealing that he had walled up that tormenting monster (A.K.A the cat) as well.

Entry #2

11/6

While looking over the ruins of his house one of the walls had a painting of Pluto being hanged. Also, the narrator then finds a new cat that looks exactly the same as Pluto, it even had one eye missing. The only difference was that the new cat had a white patch on his underside. All of these similarities scared the narrator and made him gradually hate the new cat. It reminded him too much of the cat he had killed.

"The Black Cat"- Edgar Allen Poe

Entry #1

11/3

We learn about the narrator's love of animals since he was a kid. He soon married and owned pets of his own. One of his pets was a large black cat, named Pluto, which was his favorite. Time passed and he grew irritable and moody. He began to drink, and one night when he returned from drinking downtown the cat got in his way. Well, when he shooed it out of the way it bit him on the hand. He was so mad that he took out his pocket-knife and ripped out Pluto's eye. He eventually hung the cat, rather than abusing it more later on. The night before however, he awoke to the house being on fire.                              

Entry #4 (end)
10/29

We learn about various times when he believed he was buried alive because of his catalepsy, but there always seemed to be a logical explanation for the circumstances. He had just kept thinking about his catalepsy so much that he grew a terrible fear of going outside, of doing anything with people who didn't know he had this disease. He was afraid when he got an attack in the presence of strangers that they would actually think he died and bury him. Well, soon he realized this was no way to live your life, and just started to not think about it; he coincidentally never had another attack again. Lastly, this was a story about living your life; Poe explains, "There are moments when, even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of a hell-but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern."

Entry #3
10/28

We now learn of his own experience with this frightening occurrence. He has a disease called "catalepsy" which is like narcolepsy but on a grander scale. He has these "attacks" when he goes into a lethargic state, for who knows how long. He could awake from this slumber in a matter of minutes or he could awake weeks, even months later.

Entry #2
10/27

Poe tells other stories of when people are buried alive. Including Mademoiselle Victorine Lapourcade, who was buried when she was thought to be dead. Before, she had gone through a terrible marriage, having loved another man for the whole time. Well that man went to visit her grave one night to pay his respects and when he opened her coffin he that her eyes were open. She was alive the whole time, and was nursed back to health soon after. Another story tells of an "officer of artillery", who was pronounced dead and later buried. But one night a peasant was sitting on his grave and felt a commotion underneath him. Well, people ended up digging him up and sending him to a hospital. Sure enough he was indeed alive and was soon on the road to a full recovery. Unfortunately, he ended up dying when the doctors tried to apply a galvanic batter to him though. Poe speaks of another person who had to endure this inconvenient occurrence; Mr. Edward Stapleton. He apparently died of typhus fever and was buried. But soon after he was dug back up for further examination. They made several incisions before a student suggested applying a galvanic battery to the pectoral muscle. Immediately after the doctor had done this Mr. Stapleton sprang up and mumbled, "I am alive".

"The Prematural Burial"- Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe Stories)

Entry #1
10/22

Poe talks about how the worst thing somebody could do to someone is bury them alive. We then find out that, that is just what happened to one woman who suddenly caught some disease. She was presumed dead, but later when they opened the family vault that they put her in they found her decayed body upright against the door.