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The Price of Fear - Come As You Are

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Vincent describes the mysterious man in the gallery with pale, watery eyes obscured behind old-fashioned pince-nez, whose appearance remains hauntingly vague.
Vincent Price recounts being strong-armed by his friend Charles into attending a 'come as you are' party at a historic priory. There, he encounters the ghost of the house's former owner, who reveals a tragic tale of jealousy, infidelity, and a fatal confrontation stemming from a cursed mirror.

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A costume-party invitation curdles into a tightly wound tale of vanity, suspicion, and dread.

Come As You Are turns a polite invitation into a study in vanity, class sneer, and private dread. Vincent Price's host voice gives the gathering an edge of menace, while the crossed-out costume notice, the 2 a.m.

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You want a formal invitation that turns faintly ominous once the dress code starts talking back.

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