Some students who have read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” as part of their sophomore English class’ required reading are looking forward to watching Netflix’s recently released adaptation despite its being rated Mature for a TV series.

“I want to see what happens in the series and find out why everything happened in the story,” said sophomore Anthony Rowland, who read Poe’s short story in English teacher Christian Penuelas’ third period class at the start of the school year.

Rowland said the tale – featured as “Unit 1: Inside the Nightmare” in the sophomore English textbook – left readers with many unanswered questions about its narrator and his visit to a mansion belonging to his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, and his sister, Madeline. Poe’s ending literally has the building start to fall apart, packing that final punch of Gothic horror and mystery to the story.

“I think it lacked a little bit of context as to why the house was cursed and why there was a connection between Usher and the house,” Rowland said.

Netflix released on Thursday, Oct. 12, all eight episodes of the limited series directed by Mike Flanagan and billed as a “wicked horror series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.”

An Accolade poll of 122 respondents administered from Oct. 4-13 showed 59% percent preferred to wait and see how much hype the Netflix adaptation gets on social media. Only 20% voted to watch it once it’s released.

Nevertheless, sophomore Kalani Lodrigueza said “Usher” will be on her Halloween viewing list.

“It’s a really good Halloween story,” Lodrigueza said about Poe’s story. “And I also like film a lot, so that story [being] made into a TV show would be really cool to see.”

Even though the Netflix series is TV-MA – the trailer includes an F-bomb – the sophomore who read Poe’s tale in English teacher Tommy Li’s fifth period class earlier this month said she wants to give it a chance.