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- I don't understand you. I've seen nothing.
- Then stay. You shall see it! Even as I've seen it for these past two hours!

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

You can hear this line at 00:21:21 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- It is I, Roderick.

- Oh. Oh, Roderick.

- What are you doing up and about at this hour... in pitch blackness?

- Wait. Let me light the candles.

- No. I am quite used to darkness.

- I heard your footsteps and knew that you must be awake even as I was.

- But... can it be that you've not seen it?

- I don't understand you. I've seen nothing.

- Then stay. You shall see it! Even as I've seen it for these past two hours!

- Wait, wait, I'll throw open the casement window! There! Look!

- It was, indeed, a tempestuous yet sternly beautiful night, and one wildly singular in its terror and in its beauty.

- The exceeding density of the clouds, which hung so low as to press upon the turrets of the house, did not prevent our perceiving the velocity with which they flew careening from all points against one another.

- We had no glimpse of the moon or stars...

- But, terrible to behold, the under-surfaces of the huge cloud masses, as well as all terrestrial objects immediately around us...

[...]

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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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