...and primeval fear of fear can become infectious for the narrator: "It was no wonder that [Usher's] condition terrified - that it infected me. I felt...of his own fantastic yet impressive superstitions." In the next paragraph, he gives a precise description of the experience of sheer and causeless horror:...

...narrator's "inner and spiritual self,"11 while the narrator feels himself becoming assimilated to Usher: "It was no wonder that his condition terrified —...creeping upon me, by slow yet certain degrees, the wild influence of his own fantastic yet impressive superstitions" (330). Influences, sympathies, and correspondences...

...unequal, and objectless step'; the narrator is aware of 'the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...attention, as if listening to some imaginary sound.' The narrator also observes 'a species of mad hilarity in his eyes' (TMI 140), how 'a tremulous quaver,...

...courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in an attitude of the profonndest attention, as if listening to some imaginary sound. It was no wonder that his condition...

...contagiousness of the Ushers' morbidity. "It was no wonder," he writes late in the tale, "that [Roderick's] condition terrified — that it infected me. I felt...of his own fantastic yet impressive superstitions" (330). It seems the Ushers' deathliness can be contracted, caught from them like a virus or flu —...

...courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...own fantastic yet impressive superstitions. It was, especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of...

...courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in...own fantastic yet impressive superstitions. It was, especially, upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of...

...Rodericks haben auch auf den Erzähler eine Wirkung: his condition terrified - that is infected nie. I felt creeping upon me, by slow yet certain degrees,...wild influences of his own fantastic yet impressive superstition (289-290). In der siebenten oder achten Nacht, nach dem Madeline eingeschlossen wurde,...

...described as "The pallor of his [Usher] eye had assumed a more ghastly hue" so that "I [the narrator] felt creeping upon me, by slow yet certain degrees, the wild influences of his fantastic yet impressive superstitions. "(41 1) Till the end of story, at a "tempestuous" night with...