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Published: 2018-03-18 23:39:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1072; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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Drawn from the H. P. Lovecraft story called The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, which was the inspiration for the movie The Haunted Palace.Here is a classic introduction to the film by none other than the Master or Horror himself, Vincent Price: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPW-mu…
Opening title and main theme from The Haunted Palace film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2tZ1M…
And lastly for your horrified entertainment, please allow me present the full movie: www.dailymotion.com/video/x1x4…
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Original image credit - g3yxi3w953w3xjjaj1xcbuay.wpeng…
Vincent Price - imgc.artprintimages.com/images…
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“Corvinus necandus est. Cadaver aq(ua) forti dissolvendum, nec aliq(ui)d retinendum. Tace ut potes.”
[“Curwen must be killed. The body must be dissolved in aqua fortis, nor must anything be retained. Keep silence as best you are able.”]
-The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
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OOPS!
Someone screwed that up royally, since Curwen appeared well in control of his descendant in the closing moments of the film.
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Well, the quote is just from the novel, a warning coming from a spirit of the past and directed to Dr. Willett.
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Something that Dr Willett didn't get right I gather.
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Uhm ... the last part of the novel state differently:
"At the very first word from Willett's mouth the previously commenced formula of the patient stopped short. Unable to speak, the monster made wild motions with his arms until they too were arrested. When the awful name of Yog-Sothoth was uttered, the hideous change began. It was not merely a dissolution, but rather a transformation or recapitulation; and Willett shut his eyes lest he faint before the rest of the incantation could be pronounced.
But he did not faint, and that man of unholy centuries and forbidden secrets never troubled the world again. The madness out of time had subsided, and the case of Charles Dexter Ward was closed. Opening his eyes before staggering out of that room of horror, Dr. Willett saw that what he had kept in memory had not been kept amiss. There had, as he had predicted, been no need for acids. For like his accursed picture a year before, Joseph Curwen now lay scattered on the floor as a thin coating of fine bluish-grey dust."
Willett countered Curwen's formula with the one he found in the secret dungeon under the farm and the old evil sorcerer is reduced to dust.
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Wow!
Thanks for the clarifications on what Lovecraft wrote.
Another case where the author didn't allow evil to go unchecked!
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He definitely was one of the best!
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