Movie-Sounds.org > Old-Time Radio Quotes > The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)

Can't you sense those hideous tentacles even now reaching out for me? For me!

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

You can hear this line at 00:13:37 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- The doctor regrets his sad duty?

- Are you fools? Both of you, fools?

- I don't understand.

- 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?

- 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?

- Can't you sense those hideous tentacles even now reaching out for me? For me!

- Oh, now, the last living... if it be living... the last living descendant of the accursed House of Usher.

- Such was the passing of Madeline Usher... once living, now dead.

- And her very death, untimely in its aspects, bore to my trembling soul a portent of events yet more hideous, more horrible - and yet to come.

- At a later hour of that same sad night, Roderick came into my chamber to voice an intention so morbidly unnatural that, for the moment, I could only feel that his tottering reason had at last failed him entirely.

- Then you refuse?

- But... this is madness.

[...]

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)

[Amazon link] #ad

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Poll

You are using film sounds: