Hearing screeching behind a basement wall, they knock the wall down to discover the dead lovers - and Annabelle's black cat, which Herringbone had accidentally walled up with the lovers. The authorities become suspicious and two policemen (John Hackett and Lennie Weinrib) visit the house to investigate. The cuckolded Herringbone then entombs them alive in an alcove in the basement. Time passes, and Annabelle and Luchresi become intimate. Luchresi escorts him home and meets his wife. One night on a ramble about town, he happens upon a wine tasting event and challenges the world's foremost wine taster, Fortunato Luchresi ( Vincent Price), to a contest. Montresor Herringbone ( Peter Lorre) hates his wife Annabelle ( Joyce Jameson) and her black cat. The cast includes Edmund Cobb as a coach driver.Ĭasting call for black cats for "The Black Cat" segment in Tales of Terror, 1961 Then Morella and Lenora return to their original bodies, Lenora smiling as she lies on her dead father, rotten Morella cackling as the flames consume the house. Morella strangles her horrified husband as a fire breaks out in the house. This is in exchange for Lenora's, which is now decomposing where Morella lay. Morella's body is then resurrected, becoming as whole and as beautiful as she was in life. One night Morella's spirit rises, and kills Lenora in revenge for her childbed death. His feelings soften towards her when he learns she has a terminal illness.
Lenora cannot return to Boston and remains in the house to care for her father.
Lenora then discovers her mother's body decomposing on a bed in the house. He refuses her company, insisting that she killed her mother Morella ( Leona Gage) in childbirth. When Lenora Locke ( Maggie Pierce) travels from Boston to be reunited with her father ( Vincent Price) in his decrepit and cobwebbed mansion, she finds him drunk, disordered, and depressed. The story Morella was remade in the 1990s as The Haunting of Morella.
Each sequence is introduced via voiceover narration by Vincent Price, who also appears in all three narratives. The film uses an anthology format, presenting three short sequences based on the following Poe tales: " Morella", " The Black Cat" (which is combined with another Poe tale, " The Cask of Amontillado"), and " The Facts in the Case of M.
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