Edgar Allen Poes Fall Of The H

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properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium” (718). This statement contributes to the collective atmosphere of despair and anguish, the narrator tries to view everything he sees in a rational manner, but upon looking at the house and its surroundings, he seems to have a heightened sense of unreality, as if he is hallucinating. Poe uses descriptive words such as decayed, strange, peculiar, gray, mystic, Gothic, pestilent, dull and sluggish to help set the unusual, gloomy atmosphere of the story.
The narrator goes on to talk about the increasing sense of superstition he receives when looking at the house. “There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition…Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis…that when I again uplifted my eyes to the house itself, from its image in the pool, there grew in my mind a strange fancy…I but mention it to show the vivid ...

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