Dead of the Nite

Also in the 1960s, he had a number of low-budget
successes with Roger Corman and AIP including
the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations House of Usher
(1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Raven
(1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964);
he also appeared in The Abominable Dr. Phibes
(1971) and Theatre of Blood (1973). He often expressed
an interest in doing Shakespeare, which is
why Theatre of Blood was one of his favorite
roles. He often spoke of his joy at playing
"Egghead" on the popular Batman television series.
He actually started an egg throwing fight
while rehearsing on the show.Another of his costars,
Yvonne Craig (Batgirl), often said Price was
her favorite co-star.
In 1964 at the request of a personal friend, he
narrated a brief history of Tombstone, Arizona
(titled, "Tombstone, The Town Too Tough To
Die") for use in the diorama at the site of the
O.K. Corral gunfight site. He reportedly recorded
the 20-minute piece in a single take at a recording
studio in Hollywood, and when asked about
his fee, asked for his pal, the owner of the exhibit
at the time, to buy him lunch. Price never visited
Tombstone but his narration is still used in
the diorama.
He had his own mail-order book club in the 1970s, "Vincent Price
Books", specializing in mystery and detective novels. He greatly
reduced his film work from around 1975, as horror itself suffered a
slump, and increased his narrative and voice work. For example,
Price's voiceover is heard on Alice Cooper's first solo album Welcome
to My Nightmare also playing "the spirit of the nightmare"
in Alice Cooper's 1975 television special. “Vincent’s Rap” in Michael
Jackson's mini-movie music video, Thriller, is by far his best
remembered voiceover. Another of these fantastic renditions was
one of his last major and one of his favourite feature film roles, as
the voice of Professor Ratigan in Walt Disney Pictures' The Great
Mouse Detective, in which two original songs had been written for
especially for him.