The Weird Circle
The Fall of the House of Usher
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The Weird Circle brings classic tales of mystery, horror, and the supernatural to radio in dramatic adaptations. This recording presents Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a story of a decaying family estate, its troubled inhabitants, and an atmosphere of mounting dread.
The program turns literary fiction into an acted radio performance, using voices, dialogue, and sound to carry the story. Poe’s tale centers on a visitor to the Usher home and the unsettling events surrounding Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline, as the house itself seems bound up with the family’s fate.
The result is a gothic listening experience built on suspense and unease rather than action: a shadowed mansion, psychological tension, and the slow approach of catastrophe. It offers a radio adaptation of one of Poe’s best-known works in a format suited to close listening.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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