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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    Helen, thy beauty is to me
    Like those Nicean barks of yore,
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    In the right stage of the weather a pond fires its evening gun with great regularity.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    The radiance was that of the full, setting, and blood-red moon, which now shone vividly through that once barely- discernible fissure,... extending from the roof of the building, in a zigzag direction, to the base. While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)