# The Haunted Palace 1963

The Haunted Palace is a 1963 Gothic fantasy horror film released by American International Pictures , starring Vincent Price , Lon Chaney Jr. and Debra Paget (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead necromancer . Directed by Roger Corman , it is one of his series of eight films based largely on the works of American author Edgar Allan Poe . Although 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. P. Lovecraft . \[ 4 \] 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. In 1765, the inhabitants of Arkham , Massachusetts , are suspicious of the strange phenomena surrounding the grand "palace" that overlooks the town. They suspect the palace's owner, Joseph Curwen, is a warlock . A young girl wanders up to the palace in a trance-like state. She is led by Curwen and his mistress, Hester, down into the dungeons. The girl is subjected to a strange ritual, in which an unseen creature rises up from a covered pit. The townspeople observe the girl wandering off, and they storm the palace to confront its owner. Though the girl appears unharmed, the townspeople surmise that she has been bewitched to forget what happened to her. They drag Curwen out to a tree where…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1963
- By: Charles Beaumont, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft
- Genres: Horror, Science fiction, Adventure, Mystery
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the-haunted-palace-1963)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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