Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
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Christopher Lee
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
Bela Lugosi
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Tell-Tale Heart')
Julian Sands
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar')
Guillermo del Toro
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Pit and the Pendulum')
Roger Corman
Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
Stephen Hughes
Crow / Poe (voice)
Cornelia Funke
Death (voice)
Karla Cervantes
Additional Voices
Raúl García
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