Flanagan’s House: Processes of Adaptation and Appropriation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Work in The Fall of The House of Usher (Netflix, 2023)
Abstract
The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) is a gothic horror miniseries created by director and producer Mike Flanagan. It recounts the story of the Ushers, a family of millionaires whose members begin to die one by one under mysterious circumstances. The series takes as its foundation Edgar Allan Poe’s homonymous tale «The Fall of the House of Usher» (1839), but it also draws on a wide range of the author’s life and literary works to weave a new narrative that highlights the richness of Poe’s universe. Within this complex intertextual framework, the present chapter will focus on analyzing the presence of the tale «The Fall of the House of Usher» in the series, considering narrative structure, character development, shared themes, aesthetic choices, and the use of the literary quotations. It will also explore how the tale is updated and adapted to resonate with contemporary audiences.
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Carlson, Eric W. «“William Wilson”: The Double as Primal Self». Topic, 1976, 16, pp. 35-40.
Corman, Roger (dir.). La caída de la casa Usher [película]. American International Pictures, 1960.
Craighill, Stephanie. The Influence of Duality and Poe’s Notion of the «Bi-part Soul» on the Genesis of Detective Fiction in the Nineteenth-Century [tesis doctoral]. Edinburgh Napier University, 2010.
Dupont, Jocelyn. «Failing Again Better: The Fall of the House of Flanagan’s Usher (Netflix, 2023)». En Hildenbrand, K., N. Labarre e I. Licari-Guillaume (eds.). Failure in Print and Audiovisual Culture in the English-Speaking World. Cannes Côte d’Azur, Francia, 2024. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-04724252. [Último acceso: 4 de julio del 2025].
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Elkins, William R. «The Dream World and the Dream Vision. Meaning and Structure in Poe’s Art». The Emporia State Research Studies, 1968, 17(1), pp. 5-17.
Engel, Leroy W. «The Journey from Reason to Madness: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”». Essays in Arts and Sciences, 1985, 14, pp. 23-31.
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Federal Communications Commission. «Focus on Broadband and Opioids». https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/connect2health/focus-on-opioids.html [Último acceso: 4 de julio del 2025].
Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. «Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative Use of Literary Doubling». Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2013, 4(1), pp. 71-82.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. «Eleonora: Poe and Madness». En FISHER, Benjamin Franklin (ed.). Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu. Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990, pp. 178-188.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin. «Poe and the Short Story». En BENDIXEN, Alfred y James NAGEL (eds.). A Companion to the American Short Story. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010, pp. 29-30.
Flanagan, Mike (dir.). La caída de la casa Usher [miniserie de televisión por internet]. Netflix/ Intrepid Pictures, 2023.
Genette, Gérard. Palimpsestsos: La literatura en segundo grado. Trad. Celia Fernández Prieto. Altea: Taurus, 1989.
González-Rivas Fernández, Ana. «The Latin Quotation in the Literature of Terror: Birth and Evolution of a Literary Convention». En HÖLTER, Achi (ed.). The Languages of World Literature. Berlín/Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 453-466.
Grossman, Julie. Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny: Adaptation and ElasTEXTity. Londres: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Gruesser, John C. «Madmen and Moonbeams: The Narrator in “The Fall of the House of Usher”». The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 2004, 5(1), pp. 80-90.
Hoffmeister, Gerhart. «“William Wilson” and the Double: A Freudian Insight». Coranto, 1974, 9(2), pp. 24-29.
Hogle, Jerold, E. «Introduction: The Gothic in Western Culture». En HOGLE, Jerold, E. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Nueva York: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 1-21.
Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. Nueva York: Routledge, 2006.
Jones, Paul Christian. Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Jung, Yonjae. «The Imaginary Double in Poe’s “William Wilson”». LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 2000, 11(4), pp. 385-402.
Kennedy, J. Gerald y Weissberg, Liliane (eds.). Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Kyriakou, Maria. «The Madness Narrative in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”: Multilingual Routes in Translation». Translation Matters, 2022, 4(2), pp. 34-51.
Larik, Shamis Uddin et al. «The Sound of Guilt: Psychoanalytic Themes in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”». Dialogue Social Science Review (DSSR), 2025, 3(1), pp. 380-387.
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Moores, Donald J. «“Oh Gigantic Paradox”: Poe’s William Wilson and the Jungian Self». The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 2006, 7(1), pp. 31-48.
Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark. Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Nueva York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Novosat, Courtney. «Outside Dupin’s Closet of Reason: (Homo)sexual Repression and Racialized Terror in Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue». Poe Studies, 2012, 45(1), pp. 78-106.
Perry, Dennis R. y Sederholm, Carl H. Poe, «The House of Usher», and the American Gothic. Nueva York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
Person, Leland S. «Queer Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart of his Fiction». Poe Studies, 2008, 41(1), pp. 7-3.
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Sanders, Julie. Adaptation and Appropriation. 2.a edición. Nueva York: Routledge, 2016.
Shirley C., Laura. «The Portrayal of the Theme of Guilt and Search for Redemption in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”». International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2024, 9(2), pp. 141-144.
Stadler, Gustavus T. «Poe and Queer Studies». Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, 2000, 33(1/2), pp. 19-22.
Wilbur, Richard. «The House of Poe». En Regan, Robert (ed.). Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays. Nueva Jersey: Englewood Cliffs, 1967, pp. 98-120.
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