The latch of my chamber door was being lifted from without.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:20:43 in the radio play.
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- I retired at a late hour, but found sleep impossible.
- 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?
- What are you doing up and about at this hour... in pitch blackness?
- Wait. Let me light the candles.
- No. I am quite used to darkness.
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