of Poe, initially made through  American International Pictures , and mostly in collaboration with writer/scenarist  Richard Matheson , these films included House of Usher  (1960),  The Pit and the Pendulum  (1961),  The Premature Burial  (1962),  Tales of Terror  (1962),  The Raven  (1963),  The Haunted Palace  (1963),  The Masque of the Red Death  (1964), and  The