After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion looking his adored one, Madeline. Upon arriving, but he discovers that her brother Roderick Usher and Madeline have been affected with a malady: while Madeline is now catatonic, Roderick's sensations have become painfully severe. Roderick tells his guest with an older Usher family curse: any time there was more than one Usher child, that evening, all of the siblings have gone mad and died horrible deaths. The impacts of the curse reach their frightening orgasm , as the days wear on.