Through specific gothic elements such as emotions and the eerie, mysterious setting, and the supernatural, Poe successfully achieves a suspenseful mood within his short story.
At the end of The Fall of the House of Usher, when the house sinks and falls, it is because of his insanity and his belief that his sister died when, in fact, she did not die and she came back and destroyed the “House of Usher” out of anger.
The insanity of Usher leads to the ultimate downfall of the Usher house. "The