The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within. . . . Dark draperies hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. —“The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe Which setting is described here? Roderick’s study

the narrator’s house

Usher’s tarn