011- The Fall of the House of Usher

You upset with today's headlines? Worried about the high cost of living? Want to get away from it all? CBS offers you escape. A friend of a man living in death, confident of a ghoul, witness to a nameless terror.

You are a guest in the House of Usher. The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present, escape, produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and carefully plotted to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

We escaped to a gloom-shrouded moor and a house where dread holds sway, as Edgar Allan Poery comes to the name of his famous story, the fall of the house of Usher. It is with some regret, but I believe advisable that I identify myself only as a friend of of Roderick Usher, certainly the last and perhaps the only friend of that unhappy man.

Having only one sister, he was the last male descendant of the ancient house of Usher. Roderick had been one of my boom companions in boyhood, but many years had elapsed now since our last meeting.

And so as I held his letter in my hand, not yet opening it, I reflected with no little sadness upon the devious fates that chart our courses and drive old friends away from one another.

But then a sudden feverish in a stalgic curiosity laid hold of me, and with fingers made clumsy by their eagerness, I tore open the letter and read, My dear friend, my need of you has so far outgrown my pride, that I am going to request of favour which I realise full well may involve considerable inconvenience to yourself. For