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 b