An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970) is a 52-minute film which features Vincent Price, in front of a live audience, reciting four of Edgar Allan Poe's stories.

The stories included are: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Sphinx", "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Pit and the Pendulum".

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    And we passed to the end of a vista,
    But were stopped by the door of a tomb—
    By the door of a legended tomb;
    And I said—” What is written, sweet sister,
    On the door of this legended tomb?”
    She replied—”Ulalume—Ulalume!—
    ‘Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!”
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The mimes become its food,
    And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
    In human gore imbued.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    I was a child and she was a child,
    In this kingdom by the sea;
    But we loved with a love which was more than love --
    I and my Annabel Lee.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)