Short Fiction · Character
Ethelred
Hero of a romance novel read aloud in 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.
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First appearance: the fall of the house of usher
Ethelred shows up with force in A Tale of the Ragged Mountains. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Mentioned in the context of the narrator's earlier conversation about a dream.
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