- Nice choice.

- This is, obviously, not the only Poe/RMT tale involving a deceased female spouse. ("The oblong box" comes to mind and I think there's another one as well.) Poe lost his beloved wife to illness at an early age, and his grieving comes through in his work.

- I love when the friend on the edge of insanity asks the doctor: "Mesmerize ME, Gordon", trying to get his beloved's image out of his ever-burdened mind.

- Guy Sorel (Sorrell?), like in his masterful "The hand" appearance, again does a good "sinister English aristocrat" voice.

- And the other voice Sorel does in this play, that of the ill-fated guard, makes me ask: How many of you ever listened to the Firesign Theatre comedy group (also from the 70s)?

I don't mean to make light of someone dying but...Sorel's character is talking when the doctor's friend stabs him in the back, whereupon the former says: "Agh...aghhh.." and drops to the floor ostensibly dead.

That sounded exactly like a Firesign skit when a some british character was trying, in a very climactic moment of a serious yet goofy skit, to get information from an aristocrat of some sort lying on his deathbed. The Firesign player, as the british man, was about to get critical information on buried treasure or something like that from the dying man and the skit went something like this:

BRITISH GUY: "And the treasure is where...?"

DYING MAN: "You will find it with..."

BRITISH GUY: "Go on..." (obviously leaning on every word the other is saying)

DYING MAN: "...with..."

BRITISH GUY: "Yes, yes..."

DYING MAN: "...with the Count of...Agh...aghhh.. (SFX: falls back in bed and dies)

BRITISH GUY: "The 'Count of...Agh...aghhh..'?!?! But I don't KNOW any Count of Agh...aghhh..! (audience laughter) I do know a Duke of OUEGGHH!"

(Male chorus in the background: "Duke...duke...duke of OUEGGGHH.") 