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 As much as Mike Flanagan has become synonymous with horror, his television shows also play heavily with themes commonly found in classic gothic literature. For some, horror and the gothic are interchangeable, but Flanagan carefully weaves the latter into everything from The Haunting of Hill House to The Midnight Club.  Grim settings, haunted places, dreams and nightmares, an emotional and mental burden, a cloak of mystery and a dark and stormy night turn a typical horror story into a gothic one. Gothic horror, a branch of Romanticism, emerged in the 1760s, but Edgar Allan Poe later became a figurehead of Gothic fiction in America. It makes sense that Flanagan, who has breathed new life into the works of Shirley Jackson and Henry James, would take on one of the genre's modern forefathers for his next adaptation. Creator: Mike Flanagan Stars: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher may not seem, on the surface, to embody what we i...