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The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
The Pit and the Pendulum (released on DVD in the United States as The Inquisitor) is a 1991 horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The film is an...
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Night Tide
Night Tide is a 1961 horror-thriller film, written and directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Dennis Hopper (Queen of Blood). The title was inspired by a line in Edgar Allan Poe‘s poem ‘Annabel...
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Castle of the Walking Dead
Castle of the Walking Dead (also released as The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism/Blood Demon/Blood of the Virgins) is the English title for Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel, a 1967 West German horror...
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The Black Cat (1966)
The Black Cat is a 1966 US independent horror film made by Falcon International, loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe‘s short story, written and directed by Harold Hoffman. It stars Robert Frost, Robyn...
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Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood (autobiography)
Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business is director Curtis Harrington’s autobiographical account of his life and career in films and television. It will...
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The Avenging Conscience
The Avenging Conscience: or “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is a 1914 U.S. horror film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” and the poem...
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House of Usher (aka The Fall of the House of Usher)
House of Usher (also known as The Fall of the House of Usher) is a 1960 American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, and Mark Damon. The film was directed by Roger...
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Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his...
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The Raven (rock album)
The Raven is the nineteenth solo album by Lou Reed. It is a concept album released in 2003 recounting the short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe through word and song. In addition to Reed, the...
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Horror (aka The Blancheville Monster)
Horror (aka The Blancheville Monster) is a 1963 Italian/Spanish horror film directed by Alberto De Martino from a screenplay by Bruno and Sergio Corbucci, Giovanni Grimaldi based upon an (uncredited)...
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Buried Alive (aka Edgar Allan Poe’s Buried Alive, 1990)
Buried Alive (aka Edgar Allan Poe’s Buried Alive) is a 1990 film, directed by former porn specialist Gerard Kikoine [Gérard Kikoïne] (Edge of Sanity) from a screenplay by Jake Chesi and Stuart Lee,...
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The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) is a short silent American horror film adaptation of the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a brother and...
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The Black Cat (short story)
“The Black Cat” is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in...
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The Vampire (short story collection)
The Vampire is a short story collection, first published in Britain in 1965 by Pan Books. It is an adaptation of a 1960 anthology, I vampiri tra Noi that was published in Italy. The book is...
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is a 1965 American International Pictures (AIP) comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart (The...
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The Premature Burial (short story)
“The Premature Burial” is a horror short story on the theme of being buried alive, written by Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), and published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Fear of being...
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Stonehearst Asylum (film)
‘When you have found a thing a man fears most, you will have discovered the key to his madness.’ Stonehearst Asylum (formerly known as Eliza Graves) is a 2014 horror film directed by Brad Anderson...
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The Masque of the Red Death (film, 1964)
‘We defy you to stare into this face’ The Masque of the Red Death is a 1964 British horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court and Jane Asher. The screenplay, written...
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Les Baxter (composer)
Les Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. Although he is best know as a practitioner of exotica music, he also scored several films, many of which were...
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Feline Fear! Cats in Horror Films
In the lacklustre Milton Subotsky production The Uncanny, Peter Cushing plays a man desperate to expose a sinister cat conspiracy against the human race: ‘They prowl by night… lusting for human...
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