YMMV / The Fall of the House of Usher

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Some think that Roderick actually wanted his sister Madeline dead, and others think he was really in denial that she was alive the entire time. Given that he went to the trouble of sealing her 'corpse' in a tomb she couldn't easily escape (he claimed it was to deter corpse-snatchers like her doctors) and for whatever reason didn't go rescue her when he knew she was alive...
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The whole burying Madeline alive thing. Scarier still is that this was a common enough thing back then, as medical knowledge wasn't that great.
    • Worse still is that they had temporarily entombed her in the house "by consideration of the unusual character of the malady of the deceased" (i.e. to make sure she was really dead and not in another cataleptic stupor). Roderick knew some days later that she had regained consciousness and was struggling to escape, but he was too terrified to say anything to the narrator.
  • The 2006 Gruselkabinett radio version has her tortured screams of Roderick's name as she breaks out of the coffin.
  • Also in the 2006 Gruselkabinett radio version: Philip gets left behind by Madeline at one point... in the darkness. In a crypt.
• Squick: The incest subtext between Roderick and Madeline, and the strong implication that this is in fact a tradition in their family.