Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Professor Henry Jarrod is talented wax figure sculptor with wax museum in 1890s New York City, Fact2: Wallace agrees to buy out Burke, Fact3: Burke sets museum on fire intending to claim insurance money, Fact4: Cathy ’s friend Sue Allen is troubled by strong resemblance of Joan of Arc figure to dead friend, Fact5: police having learned whole truth from Averill arrive in time to save her
Output (English): Professor Henry Jarrod Vincent Price is a talented wax figure sculptor with a wax museum in 1890s New York City. He specializes in historical figures, featuring sculptures of John Wilkes Booth, Joan of Arc, and one of Marie Antoinette, which he considers his masterpiece. When his business partner Matthew Burke Roy Roberts demands more sensational exhibits to increase profits, Jarrod refuses. Jarrod then gives a private tour to renowned art critic Sidney Wallace. Wallace, deeply impressed with Jarrods sculptures, agrees to buy Burke out, but will not be able to do so until after he returns from a Continental trip. That same night, Burke deliberately sets the museum on fire, intending to claim the insurance money. In the process, he fights off Jarrod, who is desperately attempting to save his precious sculptures. Burke splashes kerosene over Jarrods body and leaves him to die in the fire. Miraculously, Jarrod survives, but with severe injuries including crippled hands. He builds a new House of Wax with help from deafmute sculptor Igor Charles Bronson and another assistant named Leon Averill. Jarrod now concedes to popular taste and includes a Chamber of Horrors that showcases both historical crimes and recent events, such as the apparent suicide of his former business partner Burke. In reality, Burke was murdered by a cloaked, disfigured killer who then staged the death as a suicide. Burkes fiancee, Cathy Gray Carolyn Jones, is murdered soon afterward. Her body mysteriously disappears from the morgue. Cathy’s friend Sue Allen Phyllis Kirk visits the museum and is troubled by the strong resemblance of the wax Joan of Arc figure to her dead friend. Jarrod explains he used photographs of Cathy when he made the sculpture. Unsatisfied, Sue returns after hours and uncovers the horrifying truth behind the House of Wax: many of the figures are waxcoated corpses, including Cathy and Burke. Sue is confronted by Jarrod, who proclaims her his new model for a sculpture of Marie Antoinette both Jarrod and Wallace had earlier noted Sues striking resemblance to the original sculpture. Sue tries to fight him off, hitting his face, which is revealed to be a wax mask that shatters and exposes firescarred flesh beneath; this in turn reveals that it was Jarrod who was the cloaked figure who murdered Burke and stole Cathys body. He subdues Sue and straps her to a table, preparing to coat her living body with wax. The police, having learned the whole truth from Averill, arrive in time to save her. Jarrod tries to escape, but, fighting with a police officer, dies when he is knocked into the vat of molten wax he had prepared for Sue.