The rats. They screamed and howled and threw themselves against the glass. They were starving.

9 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:11:58 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Suppose they had found a way in?

- Look at them. Will you look at them?

- It's a nightmare.

- Will you look at them?

- The air of the gallery was thick and fetid with the stink of them.

- The light was dim. Brown. Filtered through the crawling mass that swarmed over the glass all about us.

- I could not see the sky. Nothing. Nothing but them. Their red eyes. Their claws. Their wriggling, hairy snouts. Their teeth.

- The rats. They screamed and howled and threw themselves against the glass. They were starving.

- And we three, we stood... very quietly. Very, very quietly in the center of the glass room under our beautiful light. And we waited.

- What can we do? What can we do?

- Take it easy, old man. Take it easy.

- I can't! I just can't!

- It won't do any good to stand here and shake.

- Yeah. That's right.

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