On this day in movie and book history - The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

 

The Fall of the House of Usher

8-part mini-series directed by Mike Flanagan and Michael Fimognari

written by Dani Parker, Emmy Grinwis, Jamie Flanagan, Justina Ireland, Kiele Sanchez, Mat Johnson, Mike Flanagan, Rebecca Klingel,

based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe,

was released on Netflix in the United States on October 12, 2023.

Music by The Newton Brothers.

 
Episode titles: A Midnight Dreary; The Masque of the Red Death; Murder in the Rue Morgue; The Black Cat; The Tell-Tale Heart; Goldbug; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Raven.
 
Cast:

Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell, Henry Thomas, Rahul Kohli, Samantha Sloyan, T'Nia Miller, Zach Gilford, Willa Fitzgerald, Michael Trucco, Katie Parker, Matt Biedel, Crystal Balint, Ruth Codd, Kyliegh Curran, Carl Lumbly, Mark Hamill, Kate Siegel, Sauriyan Sapkota, Paola Núñez, Malcolm Goodwin, Daniel Jun, Nicholas Lea, Igby Rigney, Aya Furukawa, William Kosovic, Mark Redfield, Jason Tremblay, Paul Jarrett, Felicity Anne, Selma Heyman, Annabeth Gish, Robert Longstreet, Kevin Miller, David Santana, Kate Gajdosik, Molly C. Quinn, Toby Poser, Eileen Cruz, Kyle Mitchell, Edwin Perez, Ava Johnson, Monique Durian, Lulu Wilson, JayR Tinaco, Ryan Mah, Camille Atebe, Bill Lawrie, Graham Verchere, Jason Simpson, Daylin Willis, Aidan Wright, Chelsea Hamill, Thomas Strumpski, Gerry Durand, Danielle Klaudt, Kate Whiddington, Ian Ronningen, Leo Chiang, Arianna Bent, Alexandra Essoe, Logan Tarasoff, Lincoln Russo, Jaren Moore, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Ruth Bidner, Ali Karr, Baldeep Singh, Vincent Gale, Sabrina Miniaci, Ambika Vas, Tracey Power, Aaron McCallum, Alex Weed, Niki Wipf, Elan Gale, Marco Walker-Ng, Gus Tayari, Britney Katelyn Miller, Elyse Maloway, Kelly McCabe, Jaiden Brown, Fox Brewster, Milena Brewster, Jason Cecchini, Jazmine Campanale, Robbie Segulam, Jennifer Clarke, Irma Leong, Janene Carleton, Jimmy Clarke, Jason Bell, Dustin Pederson, Carolyn Adair, Natasha Prasad, Peter Brown, Stewart Prince.

Recommended reading:

 

The Fall of the House of Usher
and Other Stories That Inspired the Netflix Series

by Edgar Allan Poe.

Foreword by Mike Flanagan.
Published by Random House Worlds.
Media TV tie-in edition.
Published 2023.

Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0593725255
ISBN-13: 978-0593725252

Description:

A deluxe anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher, curated by series creator Mike Flanagan.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart – an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it – I paused to think – what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher?

Slip behind the bleak walls and vacant windows of Netflix’s reimagining of the mansion of doom in this anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired the limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. From well-loved classics like The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart to lesser-known gems such as Tamerlane and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, these collected tales have withstood the test of time, haunting readers for nearly two hundred years.

With a foreword by series creator and horror maverick Mike Flanagan, this anthology is the perfect viewer’s companion to Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher.