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The Raven
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The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe, 1845

Readers, do you want a poem that calls up a mood? Not that courage and drive that I’ve been talking about this week, but rather an air of mystery and fear? It’s strange how the biggest fans of the old and strangely innocent horror movies — things with Godzilla and King Kong in them, and suchlike — were kids, as if they courted fear, just to show that …

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