This eminence is also demonstrated by an illustration of Gottfried Helnwein (*1948). The Austrian artist did not produce an illustration for the poem, but in his picture for "The Fall of the House of Usher" Helen is graphically quoted (cf. Poe/Helnwein 1987, 47). The picture shows the final destruction of the mansion: a statue, clad in antique vesture, with a raised...