NeuNoir: The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/10/2025
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Location
The Treehouse Bookshop

Event Link(external site)
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/tree-house-bookshop/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-with-neu-noir-theatre/e-gypeqb

NeuNoir theatre presents Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic tale of terror, The Fall Of The House Of Usher.

After being mysteriously summoned by a childhood friend, a visitor arrives at the remote House of Usher, a crumbling manor in a bleak, desolate landscape.

Inside he discovers the sickly and cadaverous Roderick Usher, the last surviving male heir, consumed by fear and afflicted by an inexplicable illness that seems to eerily mirror his dark, dank and decaying surroundings.

“I shall perish,” predicts the ailed and confined Usher, “I must perish in this deplorable folly …”

Published in 1839, Poe’s claustrophobic tale was an instant sensation. A richly layered and atmospheric Gothic masterpiece featuring a supremely creepy house, the increasingly tense story explores themes of friendship and family, as well as madness, isolation, despair and ultimately death.

Read by NeuNoir regular Richard Usher (Sweet Cherry Publishing’s Sherlock Holmes audiobook series – and no relation to Roderick), The Fall Of The House Of Usher is the Midlands-based company’s fifth Halloween production, following WH Hodgson’s Carnacki: The Ghost Hunter (2021), EF Benson’s The Outcast (2022), MR James’ Casting The Runes (2023), and Bram Stoker’s The Judge’s House (2024).

NeuNoir presents Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall Of The House Of Usher visits The Tree House Bookshop Kenilworth, Warwickshire on Saturday 25 October 2025 from 7.30pm. Tickets £10. Call Tel: 01926 257420 or see: http://www.treehousebookshop.co.uk

For more information on NeuNoir, see: https://neunoir.wordpress.com/