Note sull'episodio
A mute old German plays his viol every night in the highest garret of a street that appears on no map. The student living below thinks it is genius, until he is finally invited up and sees the old man's face while he plays.
H.P. Lovecraft's 1922 story, read in full. He counted it among his best, partly because it never explains what the music is for.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome
1:06 The Street Nobody Can Find
2:15 Across the Dark River
3:36 A Street of the Very Old
4:10 Strange Music Overhead
5:17 Meeting Erich Zann
6:33 The Garret and the Viol
7:21 The Notes He Won't Play
8:38 The Curtained Window
9:40 A Note of Apology
10:55 A Lower Room
11:48 Listening at the Door
13:56 Zann Writes
14:39 A Distant Note From the West
15:29 The Wildest Playing
17:12 The Window Breaks
17:52 The Blackness Beyond the Glass
19:29 The Cold Face
20:17 Down the Stairs
21:14 Outro