A Powerful Family, a Trail of Deaths, and a House Built on Secrets (Mike Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher Explained!)

A family built on blood money. A curse born in a colonial basement. And a mansion that swallowed its sins. Heidi Wong uncovers everything from the real family history behind Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” to the Sackler family that inspired Mike Flanagan’s modern retelling.

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