"The Oblong Box"- Edgar Allen Poe

12/2

Entry #1

Our narrator worked on a large boat called Independence. On the day before they were to set sail he was aboard the ship in his stateroom, making final arrangements. On the list of passengers he saw his old friend from college, Mr. Cornelius wyatt. He also sees he booked three staterooms, that could hold two people each, for just four people. The narrator pondered about this for a while, but he concluded that Wyatt must have had extra baggage that he wished to be kept safe with him, not to be put down in the hold. 

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.