9 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe (Sound Clips)

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1 Haven't you seen it yet? Can you not feel it about you? The horrid, monstrous, brooding spirit of this accursed house? Can't you hear its evil laughter as it lurks in the hallways and grows fat upon the soul of my dead sister?

Paul Frees as The Narrator in The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)

2 A masterpiece of construction built upon the ruins of the masterpiece of destruction. The masterpiece of murder.

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Vitus Werdegast in The Black Cat (1934)

3 Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead?

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

4 Not even the physician himself. He hates us because he can't discover what it is that kills us.

Paul Frees as The Narrator in The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)

5 Certainly the last and perhaps the only friend of that unhappy man.

Paul Frees as The Narrator in The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)

6 But, at length, we stood before the door of the master's studio. And there the servant left me. Departed and left me - to go in alone.

Paul Frees as The Narrator in The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)

7 Then, one evening, we were sitting in the vaulted studio while the first shadows of night began to flow together into pools of darkness.

Paul Frees as The Narrator in The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)

8 Stop it! Stop that infernal pounding, do you hear? Do you wish to drive me completely mad? Open the door and come in! Come in!

Paul Frees as The Narrator in The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)

9 Can't you see that it matters nothing to me that she's dead? That I myself walk but a few steps behind her into the same shadows of hell?

Paul Frees as The Narrator in The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)

9 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe (Sound Clips)

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