I'd never seen this film. It was one of the better Cormans, much superior to Ligeia, The Terror, and others.

The score was good music but a bit too much for the film. People just walk down cooridors and hallways while the music is just pumping.

Noticed two things--First, a phrase that was very similar to a theme from Toto's score to DUNE. Second, a figure for clarinet or some other woodwind that sounds like a similar figure from JAWS and other Williams scores.

In the film, there are many sections where the score plays with minimal dialogue and effects. I haven't picked up the Haunted Palace/Premature Burial CD yet so I obviously can't say which cues make the CD or not.

This music is fantastically good ... Ronald Stein was a brilliant composer. Of course, you'd think that for such an old film, the music tapes were neglected and the quality irrevokably degraded. Wrong! The album master sounds crisp, clear and better than the film master ... great, even by today's standards. The liner notes (while not always grammatically correct ) are very informative.