#Twice-Told Tales

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Twice Told Tales; House of the Seven Gables (1963)

dir. Sydney Salkow

[movie-titlecards]

Twice-Told Tales (1963)

My rating: 6/10

Eh, you know what? I think once is plenty.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[ennaih]

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231. Twice-Told Tales (1963)

[penig]

I've told this story before. But I'm going to tell it again!

We were stationed in Anchorage, Alaska in 1964. We were there on Good Friday - March 27 - when the Second Most Powerful Earthquake on Record happened.

My own memories of it are vague because I was very young and it's hard to sort out the drills and the tremors before and after from the big day, but the family story is that my older brother and I got into the doorway in the hall in the center of the house as we'd been taught and my mom ran into the bedroom to get my baby sister, who was just big enough to stand up in her crib. And was doing so, laughing up a storm, because the crib was on casters and she was rolling all over the room, whee!

Our neighborhood was all one-story buildings and not even paved throughout. The duplex we were renting had no serious structural damage. The only sidewalk in the immediate vicinity sank deep into the earth, and it served the neighbors whose house it was in front of right because they wouldn't let us ride our tricycles on it. We used to have - and it wouldn't surprise me to know that my Dad still has - a big tray full of color slides that he took the day after, when he took his camera into town to see how it was. We used to show it to anybody who expressed any interest so I have a few mental images of rubble that I never saw for myself, because of the slides.

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[dontbestingybaby]

Howbeit, this, though far the strangest instance on record of marital delinquency, and, moreover, as remarkable a freak as may be found in the whole list of human oddities.

from Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[emphasis mine]

[dogboy-danielcain]

imagine being the person who has to operate the fake skeleton arm that has to choke out vincent price for a movie like how does one even BEGIN to explain that particular boner.

[weirdlookindog]

Twice-Told Tales (1963)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price with his co-star behind the scenes of Twice-Told Tales (1963)

[holy-shit-comics]

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[schlock-luster-video]

On May 30, 1992, Diary of a Madman, Theatre of Blood, Twice-Told Tales, The Mad Magician, and The Tingler were screened on MonsterVision.

[dontbestingybaby]

But the slightest word of real bitterness, which he was infallible in distinguishing from pretended anger, seemed to sink into his heart and poison all his enjoyments till he became sensible that he was entirely forgiven. Of the malice which generally accompanies a superfluity of sensitiveness Ilbrahim was altogether destitute. When trodden upon, he would not turn; when wounded, he could but die. His mind was wanting in the stamina of self-support. It was a plant that would twine beautifully round something stronger then itself; but if repulsed or turned away, it had no choice but to whither on the ground.

from The Gentle Boy by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[do-you-know-this-play]

[entishramblings]

Have a Gunny! ✨

OH MY GOODNESS! THAT BEAN IS SO PRECIOUS

[eclecticpjf]

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