The article proposes a reading of the story “The fall of House Usher”, published in 1839 by the writer Edgar Allan Poe, based on an explanatory process that above all, tries to identify the contact points between Poe’s text and the theory of the sublime postulated by the Irish scholar, Edmund Burke in his aesthetic treatise (1757). The reading of the story, in light of the sublime is a critical-methodological example that should extend the interpretative possibilities of the canonical texts as new questions try to understand what form the category of the sublime contributed with genesis and the valuation of the critical appreciation of the literary gothic works. The hypothesis of the written part of the sublime is a compositional resource t...