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And that last dread sound... yes, I heard it! the opening of the metal door to the crypt beneath the house.

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

You can hear this line at 00:25:45 in the radio play.

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[...]

- But the shield, not waiting for his coming, loosed and fell upon the silver floor with a mighty great...

- I tell you, something moves within this house! That sound. It reverberated through the very walls. Can you tell me now you did not hear it?

- Hear it now? Oh, yes, I hear it and have heard it long moments, hours, many days have I heard it. Yet I dared not speak.

- But why?

- Do you not know we put her living in the tomb? I tell you now, I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin many, many days ago.

- And I felt that it mattered little, but now she comes to upbraid me for my haste!

- And that last dread sound... yes, I heard it! the opening of the metal door to the crypt beneath the house.

- Now - she comes here! Have I not heard her footsteps on the stair? Do I not distinguish the heavy and horrible beating of her heart...

- Madman that I am...

- I tell you that she now stands without that door. But even now she opens it!

- There, in the flickering light of candles, in the gloom-encurtained doorway stood the shrouded body of Lady Madeline. For one shuddering instant, she swayed there.

- Then as he uttered a single piteous cry, she fell upon him in violent and now final death-agonies - and bore him to the floor - a corpse.

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

The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)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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