When it comes to horror fiction or horror movies, I am a fan of the classics. Slasher movies strike me as crass and typically misogynistic (oddly enough, I like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which in my headcanon is a satire made by radical vegetarians... and I have decided that iconic villain Leatherface is... I don't bother with sequels... the matriarch of the family). Give me an old Vincent Price movie, or a Gothic tale of an aristocratic family going mad in a castle, or a Weird Menace tale of a scientist who has Gone Too Far, and I am happy.
In that... uhhh... vein, I was ecstatic to find a treasure trove of five hours of Edgar Allan Poe stories read by Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone at Open Culture. This is a combination of some of my favorite shuddersome tales and poems recited by two of my favorite 'spooky' actors. Could there be anything more appealling (and appalling) for October listening pleasure?
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