Witchcraft-Magic—An Adventure in Demonology - Clear with Orange Pumpkin Swirl
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Clear with Orange Pumpkin Swirl.
Catalog Number: RLGM17521PMI
Color: Orange
Format: LP
UPC: 848064017523
This is going to be the scariest spoken word record
you've ever heard. We're not joking...and neither is Vincent Price. The
star of such horror classics as House of Wax, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and Theatre of Blood (and, of course, narrator of Michael Jackson's Thriller video)
can barely hide his delight while he takes his audience through a
graphic and occasionally grisly history lesson in witchcraft from the
Bible through the Middle Ages, the Spanish Inquisition, and Nazi
Germany. Then, accompanied by occasional eerie, abstract electronic
music, Price's sinister satisfaction only mounts as he provides
instruction in the dark arts, with such tracks as "How to Make a Pact
with the Devil" and "Curses, Spells, Charms." It's all in good fun, of
course...or is it? The mysterious writer of the script, one Terry
d'Oberoff, has only one other credit to his name: as the "mascot" of an
early '70s band called...wait for it...Black Magic.
This 1969 double-LP release has long been coveted
by collectors of the curious and macabre, and for its first reissue in
over 50 years, we are giving it the Real Gone treatment, reproducing the
gatefold jacket and the full-size, 8-page booklet that accompanied some
copies. It's a combination history textbook and how-to manual in
witchcraft, with a title page depicting a particularly unsettling spell
called "The Hand of Glory" involving the severed, salted, and dried hand
of a convicted felon.