"Who wrote ""The Fall of the House of Usher""?"
The Fall of the House of Usher was performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1974 and subsequently at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1975. The 1976 debut album of the Alan Parsons Project, "Tales of Mystery and Imagination", adapted many Poe stories in musical form. The second half of the album was a five-part set dedicated to "The Fall of the House of Usher", with an introductory narration by Orson Welles as the narrator. In 2002 Lance Tait wrote a one-act play, "The Fall of the House of Usher", based on Poe's tale. Laura Grace Pattillo wrote in "The Edgar Allan Poe Review" (2006), "[Tait's] play follows
The Fall of the House of Usher visibly flawed – by Ahab's livid scar, and by the fissure in the masonry of Usher. "La Chute de la maison Usher" is a 1928 silent French horror film directed by Jean Epstein starring Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt, and Charles Lamy. Actress Gwendoline Watford made her film debut playing Lady Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher", a British black and white film version made in 1947 but not released until 1950. In the low-budget Roger Corman B-film from 1960, known in the United States as "House of Usher" starring Vincent Price as Roderick Usher, the narrator is