The Haunted Palace

The Haunted Palace
Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown
Directed by	Roger Corman
Screenplay by	Charles Beaumont
Based on	"The Haunted Palace" by Edgar Allan Poe The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft
Produced by	Roger Corman
Starring	Vincent Price Debra Paget Lon Chaney Jr.
Cinematography	Floyd Crosby
Edited by	Ronald Sinclair
Music by	Ronald Stein
Color process	Pathécolor
Production company	Alta Vista Productions
Distributed by	American International Pictures
Release date	August 28, 1963 (1963-08-28)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1,200,000 (US/ Canada)[1][2] 184,700 admissions (France)[3]

The Haunted Palace is a 1963 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 by Poe, published in 1839 (which was later incorporated into Poe's horror short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"), and the film uses eight lines from the poem within the framing of the story.