In this case, it is possible that “The Fall of the House of Usher” may be a parody. Edgar Allan Poe loved to manipulate anyone he could. Poe challenged his readers by “boasting that he could not be beaten” (Schoell 68) in his cryptograms. Outside and inside the mansion, the atmosphere is described as “gloomy, with mysterious noises and cold drafts” (Schoell 69). An ironic part of the story is that one night there happens to be a storm and of course on the night of the storm the noises start to occur. The noises occur when Roderick and the narrator begin reading a scary book because they can't sleep during the storm. The noises outside the house corresponded to the noises included in the story. The attributes described are a bit cliché because they are easy to identify. Which pushes the reader of the story to make a U-turn and read the text over and over again to try to grasp the concept that Poe teaches. Therefore, to be able to say whether the story is a parody of the Gothic genre or not, only Edgar Allen Poe can answer