Most horror movies and horror stories are very simple and easily detected when it comes to what is going to happen next but, not for Edgar Allen Poe in " The Fall of the House of Usher " He uses distinctive details where it plays with your mind like you think you know whats going  to happen but, then you realize the whole time you didn't know. If I were to create a haunted house story I would use Poe's tactics 

     Poe uses imagery in ways such ways where it makes you feel like you're in the story rather than just reading a book because when you're reading you want to picture the details of the story, which is shown in Poe's writings as he describes the details of the ways the trees move to the sounds that are created by even the way a person walks.

    In most horror stories you know who killed who ,but in House of Usher who would have known that Roderick killed his own sister see these are the type of things where it just blows your mind. This is another way it gets the reader's attention and makes them keep wanting to read.

   The scene creates a dark and mysterious setting it's one of the things that should be in a horror movie or a story it's the thing that gets everything intense where your in the edge of your seat or gripping onto the book.

   Last , but not least the conclusion as they finally flee out the mansion and Roderick is dead the mansion crumbles into the ground they realize everything they witnessed is now gone and no proof of what happened.

This shows what happens now? Many times the ending it's always the innocent person wins ,but in this story it's a different twist even though they survived the story didn't end the way it should have.