許多評論家已注意到愛倫坡的《厄舍府的沒落》呈現崩解的哥德式古宅，而且，邪惡的力量也為古宅和屋主帶來衰落和消散的命運。有些評論家以心理分析解讀此篇故事，迷霧籠罩的厄舍府猶如「一種夢境或心靈之旅」。有些評論家認為死亡和毁滅與上帝的旨意有關。在本文，我探究主角結構化的黑暗心靈，也就是自殺傾向發展成自我毀滅的隠閉世界。另外，我用愛倫坡的Eureka 和諾斯底哲學討論所有物質最終走向毁滅的現象，包括人的毁滅和房子的崩解。

Critics have noticed in the House of Usher, a disintegrating Gothic-style house in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a force of evil that brings decadence and dissipation to the house and those who live in it. Some critics carry out this analysis in terms of psychoanalysis. In this, the dark, mist-wreathed House of Usher is compared to “a kind of dream or psychological journey” (Peeples). Some do so with a positive view of the dim interior of the House of Usher: in this, death and destruction are related to the idea of God’s will of destruction (Drain). In the essay I examine the dark psyche of the protagonist—his suicidal inclinations—structured as a reclusive world of self-destruction. For further discussion on destruction, I read the House of Usher in terms of Eureka and Gnostic philosophy.