This gruesome place inspires those morbid fancies.

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

You can hear this line at 00:18:05 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll ask farewell, no more.

- Look. Is she not beautiful?

- Yes. She was very beautiful.

- Was?

- Yes, yes, of course. The look of her confused me.

- But do you not see it, too? The warm glow of the cheeks, the eyes shut softly, those lips half-parted.

- Does it not seem that she may rise up and speak to us at any moment?

- This gruesome place inspires those morbid fancies.

- Morbid fancies? But now dead she seems to live and living seems already dead.

- Man, you seek out madness. You court it with your very thoughts.

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

- Dead, you say to me, she is dead. Then what certainty... why not with equal reason say instead she lives? And that I... I, the last of Usher, am the one who is already dead?

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