Spirit Week: Do you dare to insist that the practice of the occult science is a racket?

YOU'LL FIND OUT

1940

Directed by David Butler

Written by James V. Kern, Monte Brice, Andrew Bennison, R.T.M. Scott, and David Butler

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: That motley drama—oh, be sure it shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased forevermore by a crowd who seize it not

THE COMEDY OF TERRORS

1964

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Written by Richard Matheson (based on his own imagination! wow!)

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: Forgotten lore

THE RAVEN

1963

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by Richard Matheson (with several lines taken from the poem by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: moderate

American Gothic Week: The notion of that identity which at death is or is not lost for ever, was to me, at all times, a consideration of intense interest

TALES OF TERROR

1962

Directed by Roger Corman

Written by Richard Matheson (based on the stories "Morella," "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: moderate