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PLOT DESCRIPTION The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch .Each is introduced by Burgess Meredith , playing a sinister carnival barker by the name of Dr. Diabolo. The doctor's audience consists of five people, four of whom are apprised of their ultimate fates as Diabolo weaves his stories. In "Enoch," a young playboy falls under the spell of a cannibalistic cat. In "Terror Over Hollywood," a famous movie star is revealed to be an android. In "Mr. Steinway," the "villain" is a killer piano. And in "The Man Who Collected Poe," the title character murders another collector over a valuable Poe manuscript--only to receive retribution from Edgar Allan Poe himself. |
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