The Fall of the House of Usher

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Which descriptive details of the interior of the house suggest that the narrator has entered a realm that is very different from the ordinary world

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The narrator enters a home that is familiar to the one he grew up in...... yet eerily different..... different enough to evoke images in his mind.

Much that I encountered on the way contributed, I know not how, to heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken. While the objects around me --while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to which, or to such as which, I had been accustomed from my infancy --while I hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this --I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring up.

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The Fall of the House of Usher