Supernatural In The House Of Usher

To be, or to have, supernatural characteristics is described as not being able to be explained by the laws of nature or science. If those two things can’t explain something, it is considered to be supernatural, like ghosts, and in this situation, vampires. In the short story The Fall of the House of Usher, practically everything Roderick Usher does has supernatural written all over it. It is clear that Roderick Usher is a vampire because of his actions. To start off, in his letter to the narrator, who he hasn’t seen in many years, he said that he couldn’t think of anyone else to ask to stay with him. That’s a bit peculiar because the narrator hasn’t seen or heard from him since they were children, and now they are grownups, fully capable
During the storm, when everything starts glowing, Roderick starts acting even crazier than he usually does. When the narrator sees that he has to calm Roderick down, he begins to read to him. That seems pretty harmless until everything that has happened in the book that the narrator is reading out loud, starts happening in real life. For example, the narrator reads about a sword falling to the floor. “No sooner had these syllables passed my lip, I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled, reverberation.” (Poe 39) If that doesn't scream supernatural, then the next part will. Roderick’s ‘dead’ sister rose from the dead and attacked Roderick. Once the narrator realizes that he has to make a run for it or he’s next, he rushes away from the house. It’s a good thing he did, too, because the ground swallowed the house up, so there is no trace of the house
In other words, Roderick’s whole family committed incest with each other. Roderick, however, obviously does not have a mental disorder. This can be justified by all the weird and supernatural things that has happened in the Usher House. The story states “unnatural light of a faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous exhalation which hung about and enshrouded the mansion” (Poe np) this is an example of something supernatural happening during the storm. (Poe np). The only explanation to what happened has to be that down the line somewhere, a vampire bit one of Roderick’s family members. Then, because their blood was infected from the bite, from that point forward, everyone had the blood of a vampire in their system. The normal family that believed that incest was the only way to keep their blood pure, turned into a family of vampires. That’s why Roderick’s sister ‘rose from the dead’. She wasn’t really dead in the first place. She used her vampire strength to break out of the coffin to get revenge on Roderick, who buried her, knowing fully well that she was not ‘dead’ and instead had just went into a