Madeline Usher is a vampire because in the text it first hints that she is supernatural when it explains that "The disease of Lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians." And it also describes Madeline as having a pale complexion and a dark/haunting presence. You can also connect Madeline to being a vampire because her brother becomes more pale throughout the story which connect him to being Madeline's only source of food. Which would also be the cause of his nervous system breaking down. Then the last piece of information that lets you know that Madeline is a vampire is when she comes back from her burial and attacks her brother with supernatural strength.
Gothic Writers like to test the boundaries with their writing and use their stories to open up new possibilities for their readers to think upon. Many of them talk about vampires, ghosts, and other supernatural things, in this, they doing a simple but complicated thing, they are testing the limits of reason. Back when Gothic Writers started writing, they were adding these scary, dark, and haunting things to go against religion and make others think if all the different claims of religion were actually true. They communicate this to the readers by simply putting the idea of the unknown in our head. Every single person who reads these short stories will now have the idea of vampires or ghouls and goblins or something like that in their head. Whether they believe it or not is a different thing. But it helps the reader realize that there might be those things in such a big world. The readers all have similar attitudes in their writings as they boldly express their stories characters. They take control of them and don't let others question their existence or their actual personalities.
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