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The air of the gallery was thick and fetid with the stink of them.

6 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:11:38 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Got him.

- Yeah. We better get aloft.

- As we ran up the winding staircase, we passed the tiny windows at the various levels and at every one was a thick, raving, screaming curtain of brown fur.

- I was ahead of Louis and I dreaded each successive level.

- Suppose they had found a way in?

- Look at them. Will you look at them?

- It's a nightmare.

- Will you look at them?

- The air of the gallery was thick and fetid with the stink of them.

- The light was dim. Brown. Filtered through the crawling mass that swarmed over the glass all about us.

- I could not see the sky. Nothing. Nothing but them. Their red eyes. Their claws. Their wriggling, hairy snouts. Their teeth.

- The rats. They screamed and howled and threw themselves against the glass. They were starving.

- And we three, we stood... very quietly. Very, very quietly in the center of the glass room under our beautiful light. And we waited.

- What can we do? What can we do?

[...]

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Three Skeleton Key (Escape) Sound Clip

Three Skeleton Key (Escape)Memorable quotes with voice samples from Three Skeleton Key - Escape Radio Show episode aired on March 17, 1950, based on a story by George G. Toudouze.

Actors: Vincent Price (Jean), Jeff Corey (Louis), Harry Bartell (Auguste)

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