The Gothic short stories of Edgar Allan Poe are characterized by an unexpected, usually twisted, occurrence at the end. In the middle of The Fall of the House of Usher, for example, the narrator helps a school friend, Roderick Usher, entomb his twin sister Madeleine in a vault in the family home. At the end, however, not only does the supposedly dead Madeleine come back to life, her reappearance seems to bring about both the …
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…was physically there. She opened the door: "...but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of Usher." She fell on Usher, knocking him down: "...fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor..." A ghost or hallucination just doesn't fully explain the events that happened, Madeleine must of been a real person.