An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe with Vincent Price.

Of all our fears, there’s none so real       as the terror little children feel when something from the closet peers,       as darkness falls and bedtime nears. The walking dead,       a chopped-off head,             each one instills a special dread. But yet more frightening than these,       the thing that makes your marrow freeze, and haunts adulthood like…

by Rainer Maria Rilke You, darkness, that I come fromI love you more than all the firesthat fence in the world,for the fire makes a circle of light for everyoneand then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything-shapes and fires, animals and myself,how easily it gathers them! –powers and people-…

“Terror and horror are so far opposite, that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a higher degree of life, the other contracts, freezes, and nearly annihilates them.” —Ann Radcliffe from On the Supernatural in Poetry, an essay