There is so much beauty and devotion oozing from every single inflection made by Price. Such an extraordinary man and a phenomenal narrator. He and Cristopher Lee have interpreted the works of Edgar Allan Poe beyond perfection.
Poe...the Shakespeare of the Macabre...and Vincent Price the most suitable Reader. William s Burroughs recitation of "The Masque of the Red Death" comes a close second for me.
@@toprak3479 I remember that one, it was an elaborate response, I wasn't addressing myself so it's not pretentius. Now, either YT is playing tricks on me, or the comment I responded to is no more.
One of my favourite readings by Vincent, so full of passion & panic. He has an incredible knack for interpreting the emotions of Edgar's stories, he draws you into the tale with such conviction. Thanks to both for this work of art.
Simply phenomenal in terms of dramatic impact and lugubriousness - at one point VP got so carried away that he read "energenetic" which makes it even more evocative, methinks.
It reminds me of the dark and creepy castle I grew up in. Okay, it was more of a Gothic ruin of a castle but it was still a castle. As a child I played among the crumbling ramparts in the shade of the twisted and gnarled oaks. The faint traces of shadows climbing the walls as the days wore on. And then my nurse would call me in to have my bowl of gruel and a small goblet of wine from the cask. What happy days they were. Until the horror happened. But that's another story.
Of course i love it, but still Poe is more important for me than Vincent Price, so in 5:25 one sentence was lost: the same scarcely perceptible tendency to the aquiline
VP was arguably the greatest voices (of Shakespearean training and voice) of the macabre genre. Non better!! Of course, other than EAP himself. I wonder what EAP's voice sounded like. RIP big guys!!
