The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) Quotes with Sound Clips

Quotes with audio samples from The Fall of the House of Usher - Escape Radio Show episode closely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of horror, aired on 22 October 1947.

Actors: Paul Frees (The Narrator), Ramsey Hill, (Roderick Usher), Sheridan Hall (The Physician)

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The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) Quotes with Sound Clips

1 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?

2 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?

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

4 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.

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

6 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!

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

8 Are you upset with today's headlines? Worried about the high cost of living? Want to get away from it all?

9 You are the friend of a man living in death. Confidante of a ghoul. Witness to a nameless terror.

10 You are the victim of a Porroh Man, pursued from the west coast of Africa to the West End of London by a dead man's head - which grins at you upside down.

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