FILL: Poe-try for Halloween?

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Original posting 1 October 2008

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. . .

[and the phonograph skips, uttering a strange scraping sound]

Ah,  distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

[Well, let's turn off that old victrola and contemplate :-]

Lenore . . .
and the Raven.

Go ahead, let your thoughts run with Poe, and then turn aside, and write your own little tale or poem brimming with the greyness of that night.

How about the Fall of the House of Usher? Or perhaps that Cask of Amontillado? The Mask of the Red Death? The Pit and the Pendulum?

Such a cheerful fellow, that Poe! Fit for a halloween shiver, eh? Don't forget, Halloween tales are coming up! Write 'em up and send them along to [address removed] where Michelle will rip their wings off . . . er, take the identification off, and send them along to the list.

tink
under the paper moon, the set looked empty without the lost Lenore?

[Incidentally, the whole poem plus commentary, etc. is available over here http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17192/17192-h/17192-h.htm and more Poe here http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p#a481 ]