Eventually, the family falls and, when the story is taken to the extreme, the house burns, devours them, or collapses on them. Examples are “The Fall of the House of Usher” and other stories by Poe, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Innocents, The Amityville Horror, Sunset Boulevard, Frankenstein, Long Day’s Journey into Night, and stories by Chekhov and Strindberg.
