For the Ushers’ privilege, they said. Any kid they had would have a better life from all that money. And yet Roderick and Madeline used the will as leverage to make the kids obedient.
The kids were starved of love and given a taste of unimaginable wealth, then starved from that.
Roderick Usher wasn’t just cruel from his pile of bodies. He squeezed his children, kept them small and at each other’s throats over nothing.










