spookypurple7 I really couldn't believe my eyes as I started to watch this. The thought of an actor (even someone as iconic as Mr Price) simply reading Poe made me wary - I've heard it done often, and not well at that (why do actors always seem to get hysterical when reading Poe?!)! But from the first few words of The Tell Tale Heart I was, as the previous comment stated, absolutely mesmerised. Transfixed. And very probably sat with my mouth hanging open. It was magnificent. Poe in its truest form. Spell-binding, macabre, poetic, horrifying, all of it. However - the greatest revelation was the man himself. Boy, could he act! I never realised this. Why, oh why didn't directors push him more?! He was capable of so much more... I've always enjoyed his performances, glorious in their over-the-top ripeness, but never, ever, dreamed he was capable of such control and such intensity...I remained stunned and awed by the experience!

Jeff I wish that this wasn't on a DVD with the underwhelming Tomb of Ligeia. In a perfect world this would have been matched up with my favorite Price/Poe movie, Masque of the Red Death, which is joined with the dreadful and tedious Premature Burial. Oh well. Price is good as always. This program consists of four Poe stories: "The Tell-Tale Heart" is creepy and morbid. "The Sphinx" is shorter and more humorous, rather minor. "The Cask of Amontillado" is much more rich and decadent, and the final story, "The Pit and the Pendulum" finds Price at his all-out best, reaching the kind of grand emotional climaxes that only he was capable of.

GathofBaal Originally aired on television, I caught it recently on AMC. Price is fantastic, as he enacts four Poe tales, alone. With just him and a small set, he manages to engross you completely in the tales he tells. A true testament to his ability as an actor and his superb storytelling skills. Highly recommended.

livia1881 I just saw this tonight on AMC (American Movie Classics) Vincent Price, I just couldn't take my eyes off him. He really is a GREAT actor. Edgar Allen Poe's stories that are used here are such cliff-hangers!! I've never read anything of his in print. There are other films with Price doing Poe's works, I've seen one or two of those and they are fine. But this has to be the best of those.