The man across the room, half-reclining on the couch, his back turned toward me, did not hear the opening of the door.

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

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(Door squeaks shut)

- Then I followed his stealthy footsteps through many dark and intricate passages.

- My earlier foreboding heightened and was made fearful by the somber aspect of the hallways by which we passed...

- The many unused rooms reaching out with their vast emptiness, like some hideous jungle creeper.

- But, at length, we stood before the door of the master's studio. And there the servant left me. Departed and left me - to go in alone.

- The man across the room, half-reclining on the couch, his back turned toward me, did not hear the opening of the door.

- For the space of several heartbeats, I saw only the deathly pale and ghastly sunken features of a stranger.

- Then, only with difficulty could I recognize, behind that mask, my boyhood friend.

- For, surely, under light of Heaven, no man had ever before so terribly altered, in so brief a time, as had Roderick Usher.

- Oh! Oh, my friend, my friend, you've come at last. Thank God you did come.

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