11 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:04:03 in the radio play.
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- A horror which looms over me, a horror grown so great, I dare no longer face it alone.
- And so, in all humility, and for the sake of years gone by, I beseech you to come to me at once, here to the family estate in the north.
- Should events conspire to prevent your coming, then only God may know the consequences. Your friend in desperation, Roderick Usher.
- And so it happened that at the end of a dull, dark and soundless day in the middle of October, I found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the grim and melancholy House of Usher.
- I confess that the first sight of the house... the fungus-covered walls of stone thrusting their crumbling ramparts against the darkening sky, rising out of the sullen, sluggish waters of the black tarn at their base...
- The bleak and vacant windows staring blindly, the bone-white trunks of decaying trees...
- These things filled me with a nameless and desolate terror so that I reined in my horse and sat trembling...
- Half-fearing to cross the wooden bridge that led over the waters of the moat and up to the entrance of the House of Usher.
- Then, impatiently, I shook off this strange feeling of dread... and was, an instant later, clattering over the wooden bridge and on to the courtyard.
- I dismounted quickly, tossed my reins to the silent lackey who approached, strode across the gravel and up to the massive wooden portal... the door of the House of Usher.
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