![]() The townspeople observe the girl wandering off, and they storm the palace to confront its owner. The girl is subjected to a strange ritual, in which an unseen creature rises up from a covered pit. She is led by Curwen and his mistress, Hester, down into the dungeons. They suspect the palace's owner, Joseph Curwen, is a warlock.Ī young girl wanders up to the palace in a trance-like state. In 1765, the inhabitants of Arkham, Massachusetts, are suspicious of the strange phenomena surrounding the grand "palace" that overlooks the town. The film's title is derived from a 6-stanza poem by Poe, published in 1839 (which was later incorporated into Poe's horror short story " The Fall of the House of Usher"), and the film uses eight lines from the poem within the framing of the story. The film was directed by Roger Corman and is one of his series of eight films largely based on the works of American author Edgar Allan Poe.Īlthough marketed as "Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace", the film actually derives its plot from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a novella by H. ![]() and Debra Paget (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead necromancer. The Haunted Palace is a 1963 horror film released by American International Pictures, starring Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr. ![]()
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