The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

Don't be put off by the title.
Like many people I suppose, I was first introduced to the name of Edgar Allan Poe by those Vincent Price (and Ray Milland) horror movies of the early sixties:- The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial, The Raven, The Haunted Palace, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Tomb of Ligeia, although any similarity between the movies and the works of Poe was usually purely coincidental.

Then, in 1967, came that horror anthology, 'Torture Garden' starring, among others, Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, and Peter Cushing. Palance and Cushing appeared in the final tale, 'The Man Who Collected Poe,' and in case you haven't seen it I won't spoil it for you by telling you how Poe was 'collected.'

Which brings us to the present and the 'The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe' now made available in the '20th Century Fox Cinema Archives' collection.

I have to admit that I had never heard of this movie. Add to this the fact that there are no...





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