Elizabeth Shepherd (Man in the Dark) is the title corpse in director Roger The Trip Corman's final Edgar Allan Poe adaptation. She's also Lady Rowena, the new wife of Verden Fell (Vincent The Tingler Price), the bereaved. That hubby is still obsessed with his previous mate, who isn't exactly dead, results in marital complications beyond what a newspaper advice columnist might address. Overacted and with a garish script, early work from screenwriters Robert Towne (Chinatown) and Paul Mayersburg (The Man Who Fell To Earth), it was Price's (and my) favorite of the Poe cycle.
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