What happens
An unnamed friend travels to the crumbling House of Usher on a gloomy moor after receiving a desperate letter from his old boyhood companion, Roderick Usher. He finds Roderick deathly ill and tormented by a growing horror, and learns that Roderick's twin sister Madeline has also fallen ill. The friend becomes increasingly unsettled by the oppressive atmosphere of the house as the days pass. This is an episode of the CBS series Escape, adapting Edgar Allan Poe's story The Fall of the House of Usher, with Paul Freese as narrator and Ramsay Hill as Roderick Usher.
The House of Usher, an ancient, decaying mansion on a gloomy moor, surrounded by a black tarn and a moat.
Characters: Narrator (friend of Roderick Usher), Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, The physician, The servant
Listen for: The narrator's first arrival at the house and his growing unease as he learns of Roderick's illness and Madeline's decline.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.