Price plays the morbid Verden Fell, who buries his wife in a churchyard despite the fact she's an aethiest. Months later, he falls for and marries the Lady Rowena, but as they newlyweds settle down in Fell's gloomy Gothic abbey, the spirit of Ligeia threatens to tear them apart.

On location at Castle Acre in Norfolk, Roger Corman filmed his last and best Poe/Price film. Although the story is just a wee too similar to the short Morella in Tales of Terror, the film is a magical, evocative and a creepy descent into madness. And once again, Vincent (this time as the drug addicted Fell) shows us that the course of love is a sick and sordid journey. No other film could contain necrophilia, sado-masochism, drug-taking and hynpotism without sinking into the mire. A true masterpiece.

CAT or WOMAN or a Thing Too Evil to Mention?