The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether - Adaptations

Adaptations

• One of the plays given at the Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris was "Le Systéme du Dr Goudron et Pr Plume" (1903), adapted by André de Lorde.

• The French film Le système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume (1913), directed by Maurice Tourneur.

• The German film Unheimliche Geschichten (1932) is based on the Poe-stories The Black Cat and The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.

• The Spanish film Manicomio (1954) is based on stories by several authors, including Poe's The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.

• The Polish TV-movie System (1972).

• The surreal Mexican film La Mansión de la Locura (1973), in English The Mansion of Madness, by Juan López Moctezuma.

• Director S.F. Brownrigg's movie The Forgotten (1973), also known as Death Ward #13 and Don't Look in the Basement.

• "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" is the fifth track on Tales of Mystery and Imagination, an album by The Alan Parsons Project of music inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

• Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer based part of his film Lunacy on this story. The film was also inspired by Poe's 1844 short story "The Premature Burial", as well as the works of the Marquis de Sade.

• A one-act opera called A Method for Madness (1999), composed by David S. Bernstein to a libretto by Charles Kondek.

• An opera called Il sistema della dolcezza (1948), composed by Vieri Tosatti.

• In pre-production as of March 2013 is a film adaptation called Eliza Graves.