This is going to be the scariest spoken word record youve ever heard. Were not jokingand 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 Jacksons 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, Prices 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. Its all in good fun, of courseor is it? The mysterious
writer of the script, one Terry dOberoff, has only one other credit to his name: as the mascot of an early 70s band calledwait for itBlack 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. Its 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. We are releasing this one-of-a-kind album on black brick “gates of hell” vinyl limited to 666 hand-numbered copies and exclusive to independent record stores.

Happy Halloween