 Like Frankenstein's monster, Fuseli's demon symbolically seeks to forestall a marriage.Edgar Allan Poe may have evoked "The Nightmare" in his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839).His narrator compares a painting hanging in Usher's house to a Fuseli work, and reveals that an "irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm".