The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 3

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 - page 3

21 And even as I gazed, this fissure opened rapidly! There came a fierce breath of the tempest!

22 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.

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

24 And if I do, what matters? What value can there be in reason without the hope of life?

25 And now pulling sturdily, he so cracked and ripped all asunder, that the noise of the dry and hollow-sounding wood alarumed and reverberated... throughout the forest.

26 And now, candlelight. Such darkness is the very mother of evil fear.

27 And now, the champion, bethinking himself of the shield of brass, approached across the silver floor to where the shield hung upon the wall.

28 And so a week passed. A week in which the sullen, leaden skies darkened into deeper oppressiveness - in which Roderick's deathly pallor and creeping mental dissolution grew more apparent.

29 And so Ethelred waited no longer to hold parley with the hermit who mocked him from inside the hut...

30 And so I arose, threw on my clothes in haste and fell to pacing the floor of my darkened chamber.

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