Roderick Usher, the Paintings of

Edgar Allan Poe writes:  I shall ever bear about me a memory of the many solemn hours I thus spent alone with the master of the House of Usher.  Yet I should fail in any attempt to convey an idea of the exact character of the studies, or of the occupations in which he involved me or led me the way.  An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous luster over all.  His long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears.  Among other things, I hold painfully in mind a certain singular perversion and amplification of the wild air of the last waltz of Von Weber.  From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch, into vaguenesses at which I shuddered the more thrillingly, because I shuddered knowing not why; – from these paintings (vivid as their images now are before me) I would in vain endeavor to educe more than a small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words.  By the utter simplicity, by the nakedness of his designs, he arrested and overawed attention.  If ever mortal painted an idea, that mortal was Roderick Usher.  For me,  at least — in the circumstances then surrounding me — there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvas an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of the certainly glowing yet too concrete reveries of Fuseli.

~ ‘Fall of the House of Usher’ as published in the Biliophile Library of Literature (vol 17), 1904
~ Image by Henri Fuseli and found  here [Even though Usher's art overtook Fuseli's, it's here just for mood ;[
~ The Last Waltz (Op. 26 Clarinet Concertino in E Flat Major) [pls correct me if i'm wrong] here