Rathbone may also have got to read Poe, the work, but despite his huge number of roles on stage and screen, he never actually played Poe, the man. It also made him an ideal teller of Poe’s ingeniously macabre tales, which you can experience for yourself in the recordings we’ve posted of Price reading Poe, a playlist which also includes readings by Price’s equally versatile Basil Rathbone. Though he proved his versatility in a wide variety of genres throughout his long acting career, history has remembered Price first and foremost for his work in horror, no doubt thanks in large part to his possession of a voice perfectly suited to the elegantly sinister. We also believe that you shouldn’t have to endure a Priceless Halloween - that is to say, a Halloween without Vincent Price. So that you need not go Poe-less on this, or any, Halloween night, we’ve featured not just his complete works free to download, but other material like the animated adaptation of “The Tell-Tale Heart” as well as animations of his other stories Poe readings by the likes of Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, and Iggy Pop and Orson Welles’ interpretation of his work on an Alan Parsons Project album. Can you have a Halloween without Edgar Allan Poe? Sure you can - but here at Open Culture, we don’t recommend it.
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