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A character notes the “ebon blackness” of this location’s floors and “phantasmagoric armorial trophies” that he recognizes from his infancy. The narrator feels a sense of “insufferable gloom” upon first seeing this location. A resident of this location has a “morbid acuteness of the senses” which causes his eyes to be “tortured by even a faint light.” (20[1])At the end of a story, the narrator sees this building (*) collapse and sink (10[1])into a lake. (10[1])After the reading of a passage from Launcelot Canning’s “Mad Trist,” Madeline kills her twin brother Roderick for burying her alive within this building’s vaults. For 10 points, name this building whose “Fall” titles an Edgar Allan Poe short story. ■END■ (10[1])

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