During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heav- ens, i had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the mel- ancholy house of usher. i
know not how it was—but,
with the first glimpse of the
building, a sense of insuf-
ferable gloom pervaded my
spirit. i say insufferable; for
the feeling was unrelieved by
any of that half-pleasurable,
because poetic, sentiment,
with which the mind usu-
ally receives even the stern-
est natural images of the
desolate or terrible. i looked
upon the scene before me—
upon the mere house, and
the simple landscape features
of the domain—upon the
bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like win- dows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which i can com- pare to no earthly sensation more prop- erly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium—the bitter lapse into everyday life—the hideous dropping off of the veil.

above is the 1st paragraph of 1st page in the reading of “the fall of the house of usher” by edgar allan poe)

after critically reading the above paragraph, what can be assumed about the story at this point? what genre of story is it? how do you know this? explain in a prompt below of at least 250 words.