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Vincent Malloy
is seven years old,

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He's always polite
and does what he's told.

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For a boy his age
he's considerate and nice,

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But he wants to be
just like Vincent Price.

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He doesn't mind living
with his sister, dog and cats,

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Though he'd rather share a home
with spiders and bats.

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There he could reflect
on the horrors he's invented,

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And wander dark hallways
alone and tormented.

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Vincent is nice
when his aunt comes to see him,

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But imagines dipping her
in wax for his wax museum.

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He likes to experiment
with his dog Ambercrombie,

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In the hopes of creating
a horrible zombie.

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So he and his
horrible zombie dog,

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Could go searching for victims
in the London fog.

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His thoughts though
aren't only of ghoulish crime,

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He likes to paint and read
to pass some of the time.

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While other kids
read books like *Go Jane Go*,

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Vincent's favorite author is
Edgar Allan Poe.

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One night while reading
a gruesome tale,

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He read a passage
that made him turn pale.

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Such horrible news
he could not survive,

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For his beautiful wife
had been buried alive.

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He dug out her grave
to make sure she was dead,

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Unaware that her grave was
his mother's flower bed.

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His mother sent Vincent
off to his room,

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He knew he'd been banished
to the tower of doom.

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Where he was sentenced
to spend the rest of his life,

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Alone with a portrait
of his beautiful wife.

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While alone and insane,
encased in his tomb,

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Vincent's mother burst suddenly
into the room.

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She said: "If you want to,
you can go out and play.

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It's sunny outside
and a beautiful day."

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Vincent tried to talk,
but he just couldn't speak,

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The years of isolation
had made him quite weak.

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So he took out some paper,
and scrawled with a pen,

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"I am possessed by this house,
and can never leave it again."

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His mother said: "You're not possessed,
and you're not almost dead.

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These games that you play
are all in your head.

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You're not Vincent Price,
you're Vincent Malloy.

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You're not tormented, or insane,
you're just a young boy.

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You're seven years old,
and you are my son,

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I want you to get outside
and have some real fun."

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Her anger now spent,
she walked out through the hall,

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While Vincent backed slowly
against the wall.

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The room started to sway,
to shiver and creak.

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His horrid insanity
had reached its peak.

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He saw Ambercrombie
his zombie slave,

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And heard his wife call
from beyond the grave.

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She spoke from her coffin,
and made ghoulish demands.

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While through cracking walls
reached skeleton hands.

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Every horror in his life
that had crept through his dreams,

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Swept his mad laughter
to terrified screams.

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To escape the madness,
he reached for the door,

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But fell limp and lifeless
down on the floor.

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His voice was soft
and very slow,

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As he quoted The Raven
from Edgar Allan Poe:

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"And my soul from out that shadow
that lies floating on the floor,

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Shall be lifted.
NEVERMORE!"