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"The Black Cat" (after Edgar Allan Poe) "The Suicide Club" (after Robert Louis Stevenson) "Der Spuk" ("The Spectre") Richard Oswald: Conrad Veidt Anita Berber Reinhold Schünzel: 1919: Weimar Republic [2] Der müde Tod (lit. Weary Death; English international title: Destiny) "The Story of the First Light" "The Story of the Second Light"
In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film and stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Red Death at a ball.; In Chapter 4 of the 1940 movie serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", the hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and the Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe story inspired this torture device).
The majority of the original episodes are thought to be lost. However, Episode 10 entitled “The Patient Vanishes,” written for March 11, 1941 airdate, exists and was written by Frank R. Gould, who also wrote Episode 1 and Episode 7. Below is a list of episodes and the original airdates. [1] [2]
A common example of an undead being is a corpse reanimated by supernatural forces, by the application of either the deceased's own life force or that of a supernatural being (such as a demon, or other evil spirit). The undead may be incorporeal or corporeal (mummies, vampires, skeletons, and zombies).
"The Premature Burial" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844 in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. Its main character expresses concern about being buried alive. This fear was common in this period and Poe was taking advantage of the public interest. The story has been adapted to a film.
The second Bond film and the first appearance of Spectre (The Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion). With the cold war heating up offscreen, Sean Connery ...
Mrs. Evans' (Geraldine Page) son Ian (Richard Thomas) must take on his dying father's sins by feasting on food placed in front of his father's corpse. Note: Based on a short story of the same title by Christianna Brand.
First, in the 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Poe, it appeared with 74 lines as "Irene." It was 60 lines when it was printed in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on May 22, 1841. Poe considered it one of his best compositions, according to a note he sent to fellow author James Russell Lowell in 1844. Like many of Poe's works, the poem focuses ...