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Composed by Robert Prince
The amount of dialogue in Night Gallery's first season scripts usually left Prince little room to stretch his lyrical wings, resulting in music with a low-key ambience ("The Doll" being the most striking example of this method). "The House" required a different method, a story told in large part by silent, dreamlike images that allowed Prince greater freedom, making this his most beautiful score for the series. Elysian melodies, diaphanous orchestrations and the distant tinkling of music box-styled percussion perfectly underscore Serling's disturbing fantasy, a riddle of a drama with Poe's oft-quoted poem at its heart: "Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?"
This score was reused most prominently in "The Little Black Bag."
