![]() ![]() Underneath the floorboards.Įscape the Fate, “When I Go Out, I Want to Go Out On a Chariot of Fire” The Pit and the Pendulumįor such a dramatic and dark tale, an equally dramatic listening experience is a must. ![]() There are so many ways that thematic elements of “The Tell-Tale Heart” can be repurposed and reimagined, but the core of this story-the tattletale of a beating heart, signifying a physical or metaphorical end and the guilt that goes along with it-is ever present. ![]() ![]() These The Raven–inspired songs will make you think of massive haunted manors, fog-choked graveyards, loneliness, and loss the longer you listen, the more liable you’ll be to throw a velvet-lined cloak over your shoulders and wander a drafty castle in the middle of the night, holding up a candelabra and looking for where the tap-tap-tapping is coming from.Įdward W. Is there a more perfect gloomy, gothic, and eerie poem to set some weeping violins, dramatic piano, or thrashing guitars to? Quoth the Raven, “No” (or something like that). If you have a favorite Poe work, plug in those headphones and check out the curated list of music it influenced below. For the last century, musicians and composers have taken those well-known gothic tales and spun them into homages that reinvent Poe’s work in a vast variety of musical genres. His stories are atmospheric and take on a life beyond the pages they’re captured in his poetry is melodic and haunting. It’s a given that he’d be hugely influential on musicians, too. ![]()
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