At length, overpowered by some strange presentiment of evil, I found my reposeful inaction no longer endurable.

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

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- By perceptible degrees, the living soul of Roderick Usher flickered lower.

- More ghastly grew his pallor, more tremulous the extremity of his terror.

- The eighth day following the death of Lady Madeline fell upon the last day of grim and gray October and brought with it, as the curtains of night descended, the fitful breath of a rising tempest.

- Uneasy gusts of sodden rain and the sound of sullen thunderous rumbles borne of the dim flares of sheet lightning somewhere behind the lowering squall.

- I retired at a late hour, but found sleep impossible.

- At length, overpowered by some strange presentiment of evil, I found my reposeful inaction no longer endurable.

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

- Then, in one instant, a soft sound in the blackness froze my steps in paralysis of terror.

- The latch of my chamber door was being lifted from without.

- Who is it? Who is it, I say?

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