The trailer seems to borrow heavily from the imagery in this story: masks and disease. But a mysterious guest, wearing a skeletal mask, invades, and horror ensues. Thinking themselves safe from infection, they throw themselves a gaudy masquerade ball. In this tale from Poe, during a time of plague known as the Red Death, the upper class of a medieval city seals themselves in the palace of Prince Prospero. " The Masque of the Red Death" is a revenge story, and based on the same class divide as the series promises to be. This doesn't bode particularly well for her character, but we'll see how things go. Finally, Roderick's granddaughter ( Kyliegh Curran), the only innocent family member of the Usher family, is named Lenore. Verna and the raven may be alternate forms of the same creature. Additionally, the character played by Carla Gugino – a supernatural entity that seems to be bent on taking her revenge on the entire Usher clan for motivations we will likely discover – is named Verna, an anagram for our favorite corvid. In the Netflix series, a raven seems to haunt Roderick Usher. Mike Flanagan has released the names of all eight episode titles, and Episode 1's "A Midnight Dreary," and Episode 8's "The Raven" are both references to this poem. RELATED: 'The Fall of the House of Usher' Review: Mike Flanagan Successfully Merges Edgar Allan Poe and 'Succession' The raven can speak, but only one word, "nevermore," which is generally interpreted as a symbol that the narrator will never overcome his grief. He cannot sleep because he's grief-stricken following his love, Lenore, "the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore." A raven flies into his window, and he can't get it to leave. In the poem, our narrator is up late on a cold winter evening. Is " The Raven," the most famous poem in the world? If not, it's at least Poe's best-known work. Hopefully, the art-loving aspect of Roderick's character, terrible taste and all, is maintained. One of the narrator's series of miserable experiences while visiting Roderick involves having to look at a very unsettling painting his friend made. Also, while the Usher family in the story is a malignant cabal hoarding a pile of ill-gotten gain, the Ushers in the story are just an eccentric old-money family, known for being frequent patrons of the arts. It appears that the series will fit the two ideas together by setting the story in the present, when Roderick ( Bruce Greenwood) is alone with most of the series narrated as flashbacks. The entire Usher family, going back generations, is known for producing only one heir with each generation, and so never spreading out of their one estate, even as it becomes decrepit. The literary Ushers are a wealthy family, but Roderick has no children. This is a very loose adaptation of the namesake story. Somebody, or some entity, is stalking them, one by one, and taking their revenge. The Ushers built their fortune by starting up the ruthless Fortunado pharmaceutical corporation. These newly invented characters are drawn from the rest of Poe's macabre collection of fiction and verse. Mike Flanagan's Ushers are a large, bickering family of heirs to a pharmaceutical dynasty. 'The Fall of the House of Usher' Is Netflix's Spooky 'Succession' In fact, each episode pays homage to a different story. But Usher isn't the only Poe story to be adapted in the new Netflix series. The house itself, the narrator suspects, has somehow absorbed their sickness. The house is occupied by Roderick and his twin sister, Madeline, both of whom are living in a state of advanced mental and spiritual decay. In that story, a nameless narrator is summoned to the estate of his old friend, Roderick Usher. The Fall of the House of Usher shares its name with a short story by Poe (which you can read here). It makes sense that Flanagan's next Netflix collaboration would be to adapt work from Edgar Allan Poe, a heavy influence on both James and Jackson, often credited as the creator of the gothic horror genre. These were classic works from the literary canon, reimagined for the modern world. Among Mike Flanagan's many collaborations with Netflix are horror miniseries adapted from work by Shirley Jackson ( The Haunting of Hill House) and Henry James ( The Haunting of Bly Manor).
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