The Fall of the House of Usher: And Other Tales and Prose Writings (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Fall of the House of Usher<br/><br/>After many years spent in foreign travel, I sailed in the year 18 from the port of Batavia, in the rich and populous island of Java, on a voyage to the Archipelago Islands. I went as passenger — having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend.