#john carnby

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 “The Return of the Sorcerer” Night Gallery S3, Episode 1 (1972)

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Vincent Price || Bloody || ‘The Return Of The Sorcerer’ episode, “Night Gallery” || 1972 || gif

Gifs of this keep popping up on my dash so I did my own version of it with a hint of bloody colour. :)

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Vincent Price || Photoset #3 of 3; Photoset #1 & #2 || ‘The Return Of The Sorcerer’ episode, “Night Gallery” || 1972 || 10 pix

The scene in the 1st & 2nd photos wasn’t really done in a funny manner, but it just sounded funny. XD

Bill: Your brother's dead! Vincent: Don't you think I know that?! I buried him! In pieces! In the oak grove! Except his head. His head is in the closet.

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Vincent Price || Photoset #2 of 3; Photoset #1 & #3 || ‘The Return Of The Sorcerer’ episode, “Night Gallery” || 1972 || 10 pix

In the 8th photo, where he opens the door and is wearing that outfit, it’s one of those “Oh, here we go!” viewer moments, lol!

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Vincent Price || Photoset #1 of 3; Photoset #2 & #3 || ‘The Return Of The Sorcerer’ episode, “Night Gallery” || 1972 || 10 pix

I was happy to see Vincent and Bill Bixby on screen together. Been a fan of Bill’s for many (many) years.

[eclectic-scriptorium]

When I found myself in the presence of John Carnby, my jubilation was still somewhat further diminished; though I could not have given a tangible reason for the premonitory chill, the dull, sombre feeling of alarm that I experienced, and the leaden sinking of my spirits. Perhaps it was the dark library in which he received me as much as the man himself — a room whose musty shadows could never have been wholly dissipated by sun or lamplight. Indeed, it must have been this; for John Carnby himself was very much the sort of person I had pictured him to be. He had all the earmarks of the lonely scholar who has devoted patient years to some line of erudite research. He was thin and bent, with a massive forehead and a mane of grizzled hair; and the pallor of the library was on his hollow, clean-shaven cheeks. But coupled with this, there was a nerve-shattered air, a fearful shrinking that was more than the normal shyness of a recluse, and an unceasing apprehensiveness that betrayed itself in every glance of his dark-ringed, feverish eyes and every movement of his bony hands. In all likelihood his health had been seriously impaired by over-application; and I could not help but wonder at the nature of the studies that had made him a tremulous wreck. But there was something about him — perhaps the width of his bowed shoulders and the bold aquilinity of his facial outlines — which gave the impression of great former strength and a vigor not yet wholly exhausted. — From "The Return of the Sorcerer" (1931), by Clark Ashton Smith.

The image is a screen capture of Vincent Price as John Carnby from the 1972 "The Return of the Sorcerer" episode of Rod Serling's television series Night Gallery, an adaptation based on Smith's short story. The protagonist (named Mr Ogden in the original story and Noel Evans (played by Bill Bixby) in the television adaptation) is hired by scholarly recluse John Carnby to translate passages from the Necronomicon. The physical description of John Carnby in Smith's text doesn't quite correspond with Vincent Price, although he gives a very good performance. As a character, Carnby's literary antecedents can be found in any number of academic or scholarly reclusive protagonists courtesy of H P Lovecraft, whose fiction abounds with such figures, and indeed traces itself right back to Edgar Allan Poe's Roderick Usher.