I love it when movie music evokes genre. The album, in fact, sports 40 minutes of Macchia's original, evocative music. These stories also knocked me out, written in the old-fashioned style of H. P. Lovecraft as they luridly and graphically describe the worst horrors imaginable that can befall an earthly being. Of course, they are almost always caused by unearthly beings. Blood, putrescence, vomit, hideous skin growths, swirling black voids and other horrors of the cosmos, all read with driving intensity and ghoulish glee by Jim McDonnell.
Drills pop through the floor and the sharpened points pinion the hysterical guy to the floor.
With a great deal of anguish, he pries himself off and escapes from the elevator. Snake-like creatures come at him, coiling around him. He escapes into a winding maze, only to catch on fire . . . Macchia's music heightens the tension and suspense throughout this piece, which is really the best of the lot. With a nasty squint in his already beady eyes, Jiltin' Joe goes into a curio shop to face proprietor I. M. Deville for not paying him protection money before opening.