My god the expression..the tone of his voice.....the mad look in his eyes perfectly expressed the insanity of the murderer........amazing

Nobody could personify Poe's stories better than the Master ....Mr. Price!!!

I memorized this 36 years ago for an English class. Still know it today. Would retell it to my kids when they were young. They loved it.

R.I.P. Vincent Price. No horror artist better. Loved this adaptation; it was really well done.

Absolutely fantastic !!!! Have heard this done many times. Only Vincent did Poe justice,

Vincent Price is one of my all time favorite actors.

My God stories just can not be told as well anymore as to be told by Vincent Price simply magnificent.

One of the greatest tales ever told being told by the greatest story teller ever.

This man is absolutely stunning..

Obviously Edgar Allan Poe is a genius and one of the most influential writers ever, but this is a performance of Vincent Price. I think that may be the reason why so few comments relate to Poe. I have to agree - the story is amazing, but Vincent Price narrating it is another story in itself.

I really liked this poem and I couldn't have imagined a better telling of it. I'm almost sitting here in amazement. Vincent Price really remains such a treasure. I'm glad his work can be remembered for years to come

Master storytelling. After a while you forget you're hearing a poem and just get enveloped in the story. A+

Hell of a storyteller!! He makes the story come alive! AMAZING!

Mr. Price, how I miss you so! I wish to have met you once but alas my age denied me so. May you rest in eternal peace as your legacy lives on. Forever you are alive!

I have only just started reading Edgar Allen Poe and this was the first story i read. I love it and Vincent Price is absolutely amazing acting that out. He had major talent.

I loved Poe ever since I saw the Simpsons version back when I was around 10 but hearing Vincent Price narrating Poe/acting Poe out etc is just simply perfect.

The best narrator ever! What a magnificent english ! Thanks a lot for your post.

Fantastic. Too bad so few people see Mr. Price's performance .

wow, that just doesn't get old...friggin' awesome!!!!!! you go vince!

i love Edgar Allen Poe! He is the only person who can put feelings into the most perfect way of words! he is my inspiration!

I couldnt fall asleep last night after reading this I felt like somebody was watching me.

this is some serious act- and voicework mr. Price! gee, Edgar Allan Poe would be proud!

I love Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe. The ending is the best because he gets REALLY into it. This is my favorite. He gets more excited in this than Cask of Amontillado.

amazing performance, very frightening

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I don't think there's ever been a voice more designed to drip evil and menace than the late,great Vincent Price.

I loveVincent Price and Poe was a genius!!!

woah he's a good storyteller and memorizer! i think he memorized the same thing! :X

When I was younger I was fascinated by a certain gentleman. He wrote morbid tales of psyche and horror. Another gentleman I was intrigued with was an actor, who was able to capture the thoughts, the horror, the psyche, he was able to channel the mind of the writer, and portray it to the metaphorical tee. This actor once did a show on television (or a movie, twas a long time ago), and I saw this portrayal as well as others. I was in horror heaven. Thank you so much for sharing this!

This was a television series that was on when I was in 6th grade. I was about 11. It used to scare the shit out of me!! It was so good though. He is an amazing actor and Poe an amazing writer.

Excellent. One of my favourites from Poe, and Vincent Price is fantastic!! :)

I beleive today is Poe's 200th birthday! Happy Birthday!

Thank you very much for sharing this. :) Superb acting by Vincent Price! I never saw this rarity before. E. A. Poe is one of my favorite writers since I was a child, after I heard the "Tales Of Mystery And Imagination" LP by Alan Parsons Project which is dedicated to Poe´s work.

This guy is freaking awesome!! I love Edgar Allan Poe's work! Truely amazing! :D

Absolutely intense, and so amazing!! Love and miss you Vincent!! ♥️❤️🔥💖

What an unbelievable talent! This is just perfect!

my language arts teacher last year read this to us on Halloween. i love Edgar Allan Poe now, since i saw The Fall of the House of Usher play

amazing!! i love the way that Vincent Price tells the stories of Edgar Allan Poe he captures all the feeling in them i love his voice is perfect "here!!... here!!... it is the beating of his hideous heart!!"

Edgar Allen Poe is my favorite author of all time!

oh my gosh wat a gr8 performance. he really made the guy crazy! i love it! im doing it for my speech meet, and i think this is the best ive seen and heard!!

Phenomenal. We lost a legend, nay ICON, when Vincent Price joined the next life.

just hink of what this man has done for horror films today. this man really needs alot of thanks for alot of todays films.

when you throw tim burton in the mix of the two all ready great men, you get the BEST short movie in the world. vincint maloy. they are all sooo great!

I like this story as well as I like the story he wrote called "The Raven"

This isn't a poem, it's a short-story. His poems are great, too. And you are right; he is the master of story-telling!

This is very very stong and deep,I wish I could have had the honor of meeting Mr Price. thank you for putting this story online!

What a wonderful performance!

Incredible. This was excellent acting. Vincent Price has all my respect.

Thanks for posting.

Excellent acting by Price in this performance.

My favorite tale ever!!! Thank you very much. And this acting is amazing!

YAY! Someone understands! Pretty much anyone who loves the combo of Poe and Vincent have to be a LITTLE insane. I know i am, and dang proud of it. :]

I am practicing this one to do for my Scouts at a campfire soon. Though I could never, ever get anywhere close to the "maestro's" interpretation here. Vincent Price was a master at interpreting Poe. And this is my favorite Poe story.

I have to memorize this because I'm doing a stage performance of it... so glad I found this.

gentleman,great actor.thanks for sharing culture

Bravo!!! Brilliant!!!

It makes you wonder if he had dementia or he had delusions but a slim grasp of reality and then once he began to have a concrete object in real life to fixate upon the other man's glass eye he developed an obsession where he finally had a true break with reality. This was a masterful story of losing oneself to madness while you in the beginning are aware you should not find something or someone so threatening yet unable to stopping the delusion from taking over your whole life and mind. It is a heartbreaking tale because the narrator is struggling to hold onto a slender thread of his sanity and he can't stop his progression into true madness, all while appearing as if nothing is wrong. What makes this story so good is the man fights so hard against his delusion even as he begins to lose himself in the struggle.

Bravo, Mr. Price. Bravo!!!!

amazing i printed the store and listened then watched. one of the best stories to hear on halloween.

This is brilliant!

Brilliant!!

Beautiful madness. F*n brilliant!!

That was genius! Only a mind as grim as night could have concocted such a brilliant piece! Bravo !

I understood more watching this than i did reading the book.=)

This is Vincent Price in his true element! I'll drink to that Master of Horror! #RIPVincentPrice

Bravooo... Maestro...

A stellar performance.

Corman, Price and ....Poe. A trio, horrible, scary and beautiful at the same time...

Classic tale of guilt, madness, and murder. Perfect performance!

Thank you ever so much for this, mirkodamain.

Edgar Allen Poe is such an amazing writer and I love him and learn his stories at school but I do just want to add that his story characters are normally the stars of my nightmares...

I saw this same story portrayed 35 years ago on some talkshow. Darren McGavin did the reading and it was so incredibly gripping. Vincent Price does an amazing job here.

I love this! It's so amazing!!!!

Vincent Price is one awesome actor!

That gave me chills.

Price is brilliant. It saddens me when I think of his passing.

you right, soy de méxico y mi ingles no es muy bueno, but you right, price is great, I feel so good hearing him, is magnific

A true work of art!

terror! For real! The man is too good! BRAVO!

wow that was awesome!

a mad man who speak wisdom !! nice !!

Perfection!

Perfect!

Price+Poe=Perfect

Wow, eh does this so well! Great story I read years ago but he really nails it.

i love Poe's work.

THE END WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

This is great! This actor is amazing

i think i may very well be the youngest viewer you'll get but i adorned this video i have read this story many times and i think this man portrait it in a most awesome way

Love this

I attempted this short story myself, I always think of Vincent Price and how pale my rendition is in comparison. He's the best ever

Vincent and Poe, absolute geniuses in their respective crafts.

The man's a genius when it comes to horror; and yet, you'd think he'd be a little more dull in his life offscreen, yet i heard he was a bit of a goofball. So much for life imitating art.

that was awesome

thanx love the video

Poe's stories are so powerful and complex as texts that I had no idea they were also such utter and awesome theatre. It's mind boggling. This is a whole new dimension for me of Poe's writing. This (so far as I can tell) literal, word for word reading is one of Vincent Price's greatest interpretations. This was a great 2 part post, thanks Mirkodamian For another intense reading of Poe's poetry as theatre try Gavin Friday's reading of FOR ANNIE here on KZfaq

wow..... this story scared me i can't sleep at night

we were working on this story yesterday. its awesome my E-Lang teacher is a die-hard Poe fan. he even has the Edgar Allan Poe action figure still in the pack! who would of thought they had that? well, i should be doing my homework on this story, so ya... XD

great performance

A couple years ago in 8th grade, we watched this in class, and everyone kept making fun of him. I thought this was awesome. I think it's because I was the only one who even knew who he was throughout the class.