The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe ¦ Unabridged Audiobook

[@ScottShedd123]

Here to revist Po after watching the Netflix series Fall of the House of Usher. Haven't read Po in ages really glad that Mike Flanagan paid homage to Po's work. I had forgotten just how terrifying Po's stories are.

[@ramblingidioms]

I hope you felt that my recording did justice to the story :) Thanks for listening, much appreciated!

[@water7962]

Had to read this late at night for an english assignment but i had to turn off the audio and just read the text at 41:21 cause i was just completely terrified, Edgar Allen Poe was an amazing writer

[@ramblingidioms]

He was indeed. Glad you got through most of it before fear compelled your flight back to the written version ;) Good luck with your assignment!

[@ireneb9263]

You've got a great voice! I love the cadence of your reading. You really brought an extra layer of tension and fear to the story.

[@ramblingidioms]

You're very kind, thank you for listening :)

[@Phoenesis]

9:37 Thanks for this. I've read only 8 of Poe’s stories but this one really had me re-reading sentences many times to understand. Following an audio makes it easier. :)

[@ramblingidioms]

Glad to hear you found it helpful, much obliged for taking the time to comment 😊

[@ajturner2090]

Going back through after watching the Netflix series.. i think both did so well in the incomparable nature of loss and acceptance of death

[@ramblingidioms]

Thanks for listening :) I have to be honest, the Netflix series ticked almost every single box on my 'everything I despise about TV in 2023' chart, so it got a hard 'pass' from me. However, if it piqued just one single viewer's curiosity enough to get them to seek out the original stories, then it was absolutely worthwhile them writing it and they should be applauded ;)

[@AC-op3bo]

I came here too after watching that horrible Netflix series. I had to remind myself what good writing sounded like

[@ScottShedd123]

Me too, absolutely loved the Netflix series, nightmare fuel. I had forgotten just how terrifying the og of horror was.

[@ScottShedd123]

​​@@ramblingidiomsThe series was brilliantly done a modern take and a homage to Po's body of work. Loved the texting of "Never More" got a good chuckle. I honestly had a nightmare after watching it, Po's stories have a way of getting into the dreadful part of the human psyche.

[@ramblingidioms]

@@ScottShedd123 I'm afraid I really wasn't a fan of it, but clearly lots of folks enjoyed it so I'm pleased for them - and, like I say, if it encouraged just one more person to discover the original text(s) then it's overall a net force for good ;)

[@Freak69Show]

You know it's poe when he spends most of his time writing just the atmosphere lmfao love it...

[@ramblingidioms]

Indeed! I always loved how Poe and HP Lovecraft have a tendency of saying 'Oh, it was more awful than words can explain, more terrible and dark than can be spoken or written of, defying all analysis, to attempt to convey it would drive someone mad' .... then proceed to write 24 paragraphs explaining and analysing it in painstaking detail :)

[@Rye_Smile]

The reading of this is STUNNING!!

[@ramblingidioms]

Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

[@norno7537]

I wanted to sincerely say thank you! I was assigned a number of poe's readings and was looking for an audio version to help me focus a bit better. I see you have the other stories I've been assigned recorded as well and I'm so excited to listen to them too! Your reading is so wonderful and faithful to the text so I could read along with you! Im very thankful to have found your page and im excited to explore what else you have recorded beyond my assigned readings!

[@ramblingidioms]

Comments like this make it all worthwhile :) You are most welcome, glad you enjoyed it and thanks for taking the time to let me know!

[@davidcunningham3160]

Great read! Just what I needed in the dark and dreary night

[@ramblingidioms]

Thanks for listening, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@blixten2928]

While you ponder, weak and weary...

[@mostlymha7028]

Thank god you saved me I’m not going to get an F on my English assignment

[@ramblingidioms]

You are very welcome!

[@heyimsasa]

wanted to give this a try and poe's narrative style isn't for me but loved your actual narration. wonderful job!

[@ramblingidioms]

That's very kind of you to say, thanks for taking the time to comment!

[@Beard_Hood]

here from the netflix series. after listening i will say i like the show a lot, but after listening to this i wish they would have not used the name and just said it was inspired by it. it was funny too cause my wife said she was surprised i liked it b/c "it has everything you hate in it" to which i replied "well, i can stomach it because i know everyone dies. it makes it easier." Also, i don't know if you were the one to read this or not, i may have missed that, but well done if so!

[@ramblingidioms]

The series, to me, just felt like American Horror Story in borrowed Poe clothes, which smelled like a cheap grab at name recognition to bolster interest. Just imho, if others enjoyed it, then great 😊 Yes, I did this reading, all of the recordings on my channel are me. Thanks for listening!

[@Beard_Hood]

@@ramblingidiomsI basically agree. I've never seen AHS but I've seen all of Mike Flanigans stuff and I've come to the opinion that it isn't bad (save for his endings), but it shouldn't hold the name of the thing that inspired it. I prefer an adaption to be as faithful as possible, but I also don't mind if something inspired a creation but I'd prefer the name of the show to not be the name of the book if it is vastly different. It's deceptive. I like the show fall of the house of usher but I do think it should have been called something else, as it really has very little to do with the poem.

[@ramblingidioms]

100% ... some things are so far away from their 'inspiration' that it's almost clickbait :) I'm pretty old-fashioned in liking my adaptations to be as true as possible to the source material, but in today's media climate that seems almost an impossible hope. I've grown used to seeing most of the books and films I grew up with vivisected into shambling, bland parables, crudely re-imagined in 'bold new, exciting ways with modern messaging to reflect today's world'. Their sole value lies in their unwitting ability to reinforce why the originals were so good ;)

[@Beard_Hood]

@@ramblingidioms agreed. It's so tiresome. I'm okay with liberty be taken in translation too a degree (that Enders Game movie is the example i used for years as a bad adaption), but the core is almost always entirely unrecognizable as of late. As if the people making it didn't read it. On top of that the writers/director don't seem to have any concept of ethics or morality in general. Often the "villain" is in the right and the "hero's" are actually the ones who are morally reprehensible. It boggles my mind.

[@ramblingidioms]

@@Beard_Hood I think the best example of a loving adaptation is the Lord Of The Rings films, where they cut out an awful lot of the books and smushed together other parts but also were super-careful to keep their own messages and themes and politics out of it. The result - you get three modern masterpieces, which are completely timeless. Compare that to the truly awful Rings of Power series on Amazon, where the 100% opposite approach is true - exhorbitantly expensive cosplay which still somehow manages to look cheap, teenage fanfic level writing, everything of worth subverted or deconstructed, with a side-order of activist narcissism. Hooray for progress! :/

[@Ava-QWERTYiop]

great job!! needed to read this for my english class, and this made it so much easier!

[@ramblingidioms]

Pleased that it helped you out, thanks for listening!

[@ShaneSemler]

Wow! Great reading!

[@ramblingidioms]

Thanks! I should get round to doing more really...

[@failedrockstar]

Thanks for that. The aubible version of Selected Tales has a terrible narrator. And the version read by Sir Cristopher Lee skips some lines. Your version though is perfect. 10/10

[@ramblingidioms]

Thanks for listening, glad you enjoyed it!

[@EileenMcMullan-se4fg]

I’m about to teach this story for the first time. Being able to reread it along with your skillfully read audio has been very helpful. Thank you!

[@ramblingidioms]

What a lovely comment for me to wake up to this morning, thank you! If there are any other texts that you'd find it useful to have in the same manner then do let me know 👍

[@AM-zy9ow]

Thanks a lot for that ! I had to read this novel and it was really hard (English is not my mother tongue ), but with that audio I find it easier to understand it.

[@ramblingidioms]

Glad to hear it helped you out, thanks for listening.

[@miguelramirez6211]

“Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream… 6:35

[@AK-rd3pz]

ur reading got the voice which is easy to listen too

[@ramblingidioms]

Thanks for taking the time to listen, glad you enjoyed it.

[@AC-op3bo]

Awesome! Thank you for making this. You have a great voice.

[@ramblingidioms]

Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it!

[@patriciajrs46]

As a novice author I listen and read famous authors in an attempt to discern the style of writing which the public finds so alluring. I find that Poe writes, here anyway, to an audience of 10th grade education. Although the words are not over educated for the reader, the depth of the narrative often alludes many college students. Poe is hard to fathom. He has many undertones in his scriptings. They frighten a body like the perpetual falling of the rabbit hole. My favorite story is The Cask of Amomtillado. It's just lost and lonely enough to make everyone question nearly everything.

[@ramblingidioms]

As well as Usher, my own personal Poe favourites are 'The Murders In The Rue Morgue' (his C. Auguste Dupin making Sherlock Holmes look decidedly ordinary in his powers) and 'The Black Cat'. Cask is also a great one - I hope to start recording some more soon, and will definitely consider it for the RamblingIdioms treatment! Good luck with your writing.

[@ramblingidioms]

As a further follow-up to this older comment, I'll be uploading my recording of 'The Cask Of Amontillado' in the next few days!

[@patriciajrs46]

@@ramblingidioms Awesome!!!

[@patriciajrs46]

@@ramblingidioms Thanks.

[@tfarbes]

I love Edgar Allen Poe

[@sophiarevel6952]

Thank for this reading.

[@alexanderberzosa]

This is so cool

[@TheNamesTails]

Perfect!🙏🏾 Thanks!

[@repita21]

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[@paulwarner5674]

I saw this film with my brother when I was about 14.

[@daleandrews3552]

With Vincent Price from 1960, right? This one by Roger Corman really scared the shit out of me as a youngster. I'm 70, so I was 8 years old. This was a long time ago, 62 years to be exact. Man, how time flies. Reading the short story was a struggle at the time, and STILL is as an adult. Poe's narratives tend to be what I call "thick". But he does it so well, it's almost Gothic.

[@TinyPurplePikmin2]

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[@USABESTCOUNTRY501]

had to do it for school great read tho

[@KamleshKumar-dy1yh]

😊

[@InfinitexLibrary]

Have you thought about doing The Woman in Black? Think it would be a great match :)

[@ramblingidioms]

Thanks for the suggestion. It's one I'd considered, but unless I'm mistaken it was only published in 1983 so it's still under copyright. I know lots of other channels still record copyright material regardless, but as it could conceivably mean the death of my teeny little endeavour here just as it's gathering a little steam, I can't risk it and am steering well clear for legal reasons! It's really annoying though, as there's *so* many I'd really, really love to do..

[@Skeletongunz992]

Here from Netflix

[@Samantha-ht2xg]

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[@oldgreybeard2507]

Grief! Flattened vowels. Not before time

[@ramblingidioms]

Thank you (I think?). I've heard plenty of recordings using long-vowelled 'RP' style english, and thought I'd do something that was just in my own, natural northern accent.

[@patriciajrs46]

@@ramblingidioms It sounds great to me.

[@camila5746]

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[@smiraclec]

Yeaaa, this eats down 😭💀 thank u so much, cuz i had an English assignment on this

[@ramblingidioms]

You're very welcome, and good luck with the assignment! 👍

[@deanwinchester3526]

Wish this had been animated or something

[@ramblingidioms]

Thanks for the feedback - that's not really my thing, but I hope you enjoyed the reading either way.

[@Dank951]

Netflix is currently developing a 12 episode Edgar Allen Poe series; each episode will adapt his notable short stories such as this one and Tell Tale Heart.

[@lan5866]

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[@jordanrainey874]

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[@christianweibrecht6555]

This story reminds me of HP's work

[@ramblingidioms]

Indeed - Lovecraft was a huge admirer of Poe. Thanks for listening :)

[@Rebootzu]

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[@littledragonboy5819]

i dont understand it 😅

[@liliseren5421]

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[@liliseren5421]

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