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Margaret was going mad when she died. No one knew it but me. It ran in her family.

8 seconds sound clip from the Fugue in C Minor (Suspense) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:19:07 in the radio play.

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[...]

- Oh, those dreadful children. I tell you, they'll ruin whatever happiness we might have.

- Theodore... I love you very much. But I couldn't marry you. Not with that child's cry ringing in my head. We've got to help them.

- Give them that key. Let them go and look in the room where the pipes are. Then they'll see for themselves that there's no ghost.

- Key? Who told you about a key to that room?

- The children.

- I'm going to tell you something. Something I've never told to a living soul. It may frighten you.

- Margaret was going mad when she died. No one knew it but me. It ran in her family.

- I discovered it long after we were married, after the children were born. Otherwise, I'd never have...

- And now you think the children...?

- I'm afraid so.

- It was 'peopling of sound' she had... just like them. A fear of the dead's returning. She used to play...

- What's that?

- Sounds like the organ.

- But the motor isn't on. The console was locked when I left.

- Someone's trying to play.

- No one but me can touch that instrument. It's forbidden in this house and the servants are out. Unless those children...

[...]

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The idiotic tunes people play nowadays. Give me the old stern classics. They have strength and power! Give me something with life to it, something that will flood the whole house with sound!
A scream, for example. There's something so exciting about pulling out all the stops and drowning out all human sound!
Why, there's no one here. No one at the keyboard. The organ's playing itself. -That's impossible. The motor's not going.
So, you see, we live like angels here, in a paradise of music. -How thrilling.
And by some malicious stroke of fate, there was an epidemic of scarlet fever raging out there. The authorities wouldn't lift the quarantine and let them out for her funeral.
Fugue in C Minor (Suspense) Sound Clip

Fugue in C Minor (Suspense)Quotes from Fugue in C Minor - Suspense Radio Show based on a horror story written by Lucille Fletcher, aired on June 1st, 1944.

Actors: Vincent Price (Mr. Theodore Evans), Ida Lupino (Miss Amanda)

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