Twice-Told Tales (1963)

A collection of stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, all three feature our man Vincent Price. The first Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment was probably my favorite of the set. Price and Sebastian Cabot are friends who meet up for dinner one evening. Secrets are revealed and regrets are made. Vincent as a controlling father standing in the way of his daughter’s romantic life in Rappaccini’s Daughter is creepy and has some wonderfully dated color effects that I still enjoyed. The last is a version of The House of the Seven Gables, about a cursed home and the feud that caused it. The story is told a bit differently than the full length feature from 1940, also featuring Price. It’s also creepy, but a bit too condensed to give the story justice.