And so it happened that at the end of a dull, dark and soundless day in the middle of October, I found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the grim and melancholy House of Usher.

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18 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:03:26 in the radio play.

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- My dear friend, my need of you has so far outgrown my pride, that I'm going to request a favor which I realize full well may involve considerable inconvenience to yourself.

- For some time past, I have been suffering from an acute bodily illness... Illness intensified by serious mental oppression, if I may so call it.

- A horror which looms over me, a horror grown so great, I dare no longer face it alone.

- And so, in all humility, and for the sake of years gone by, I beseech you to come to me at once, here to the family estate in the north.

- Should events conspire to prevent your coming, then only God may know the consequences. Your friend in desperation, Roderick Usher.

- And so it happened that at the end of a dull, dark and soundless day in the middle of October, I found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the grim and melancholy House of Usher.

- I confess that the first sight of the house... the fungus-covered walls of stone thrusting their crumbling ramparts against the darkening sky, rising out of the sullen, sluggish waters of the black tarn at their base...

- The bleak and vacant windows staring blindly, the bone-white trunks of decaying trees...

- These things filled me with a nameless and desolate terror so that I reined in my horse and sat trembling...

- Half-fearing to cross the wooden bridge that led over the waters of the moat and up to the entrance of the House of Usher.

- Then, impatiently, I shook off this strange feeling of dread... and was, an instant later, clattering over the wooden bridge and on to the courtyard.

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The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) Sound Clip

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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