Every day through October, the Department of Tangents brings you the Daily Horror Film Fest – one short horror film for every day of the month. It might be terrifying, it might be funny. It could be an homage classic monsters or something entirely new. Check back every morning for a new scare as we celebrate horror shorts!

We’re getting animated for Classic Sundays with this beautifully-wrought adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” read by the great Sir Christopher Lee, written and directed by Raul Garcia.

This style of animation lends itself well to the atmosphere – the gloomy shadows and diffuse candlelight in the great mansion, the green hue of the moon on a cloudy night, the light flowing through a spirit. The strange angles in the brow and deep-set eyes of the characters adds to the uncanny feel of a world that is at once recognizable but off by a few degrees. The sound design is also beautiful – the rain and thunder and the thumps coming from somewhere in the house.

A worthy way to revisit a classic.