My World Dies Screaming (1958)

Cathy O'Donnell: Sheila Wayne

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• [closing narration] 

  Sheila Wayne : We left the old house: silent and foreboding, a place of horror and death. It was truly haunted. No one would ever live there again. It was a house of madness.

• Sheila Wayne : All I know is that death in its most hideous form waits for me at the top of those stairs.

• [opening narration] 

  Sheila Wayne : And then through the branches of the old trees I see the house again. It sits there waiting for me. Silent, malignant. A place of unspeakable horror. There is no one there now. On a mailbox beside the driveway, I can make out the name of the people who lived there once: Tierney. But the Tierneys must have all gone away a long time ago. And the house stands like a moldering tombstone to a world that died. There is an old-fashioned knocker on the door. An unseen hand always opens the door for me. I always go up the shadowy stairway as if I know exactly where to find the answer to what has drawn me here. It's behind a little unmarked door. And some unearthly power swings it open to receive me. I look up that narrow, dusty stairway, and for a moment that is so brief, so filled with terror that my mind cannot hold onto it, I know why I had to come to this place.

• Sheila Wayne : Did I go up the stairs this time, Doctor?

  Dr. Victor Forel : No, it was the same as before. You almost bring yourself to see the truth and then...