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Edgar Allan Poe
· The Fall of the House of Usher
· Project Gutenberg
The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it (and which had been so long unopened that our torches, half smothered in its oppressive atmosphere, gave us little opportunity for investigation) was small, damp, and entirely without means of admission for light; lying, at great depth, immediately beneath that portion of the building in which was my own sleeping apartm...
The copper-sheathed floor and archway within the vault reveal a pragmatic concern for safety amid its dark and forbidding stillness. The torchlight struggles against a thick, stifling atmosphere, emphasizing the vault's long neglect and the weight of history p...