Vincent Price and Roger Corman Present Six Gothic Tales

Collection of six gothic horror tales directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price. In 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1960), when the last member of the Usher family inadvertently buries his cataleptic sister alive, she rises from the grave to wreak an awful revenge. In 'The Pit and the Pendulum' (1961), Nicholas Medina (Price) lives in a castle complete with a torture chamber built during the Spanish Inquisition.

When his wife dies, he slowly goes mad, hearing her voice and becoming convinced that he has buried her alive... 'Tales of Terror' (1961) is a collection of three separate films based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, with Vincent Price in the lead roles: in 'Morella' he plays a hermit who raises his mummified wife from the dead; 'The Black Cat' sees him entombed alive behind a cellar wall; and he appears as an old man tortured for eternity in 'The Case of M. Valdemar'.

In 'The Raven' (1963), having recently left the Brotherhood of Sorcerors after the death of his wife, magician Erasmus Craven (Price) is visited by a talking raven that claims to be another magician, Bedlo (Peter Lorre). The bird also claims to having been turned into a raven by Craven's arch-enemy Dr Scarabus (Boris Karloff). Bedlo persuades Craven to reverse the spell and, after Craven hears that a woman who looks like his wife has been seen in Scarabus's company, he and Bedlo head to his nemesis's castle where a magical showdown ensues.

'The Haunted Palace' (1963) follows a man who arrives in a New England town to lay claim to a castle he's inherited and finds the town populated by mutants and the castle possessed by an ancestor's evil spell. Finally, in 'Tomb of Ligeia' (1965), when a dead wife sinks her claws into immortality and comes back as a ferocious feline, she leads her husband (Price)'s new bride on a deadly game of cat and mouse. And when the fur starts flying, she soon learns that even in death she can land on her feet.