Edgar Allen Poe Chiller

by Mario DeLara
(Clarks Summit, PA USA)

I am a child of the 70s and I remember a film that would come on Chiller Theatre on Saturday nights that went like this:

A man is in a pub circa 1800's and is challenged by Edgar Allen Poe to sleep by himself in a supposed haunted mansion. It is promised that if he makes it through the night he will be paid 10,000 dollars I believe. He accepts and through the night he meets a beautiful Gothic woman.

Upon surviving the night the man wishes to take the Gothic woman out of the house with him - much to her objection. He does get her out in the light where she drops over and disintegrates. As the man sees Poe's carriage coming up the road the front gate shuts on him impaling him through the back of the neck.

This film is in eerie black and white and I think was made sometime in the mid 60's.

Does anyone know the title PLEASE!!!!!???????