The image represents the first Corman's transcription of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, to whose formation is then in the following years several times returned, whether to direct the adaptation of the literary original, or is n as a source of inspiration. A young man arrives in the gloomy abode of Roderick Usher, to get out of here took his sister, with which it is engaged. From the first shot it is understood, however, that the owner of the house and his sister are persecuted ancestral curse, which is like a dark cloud hovering over the once majestic building.
