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My Victorian Nightmare

Bonus Episode - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

My Victorian Nightmare

Genevieve Manion

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4.6900 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

I decided to re-record my favorite gothic poem of all time, Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven, for Halloween this year. I hope you enjoy this spooky bonus episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sean has had some good ideas over the years,

0:05.0

but using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good, really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

0:23.6

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

0:27.6

Thanks, Canva.

0:33.6

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious

0:44.0

volume of forgotten lore.

0:47.6

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping as of someone gently rapping, wrapping at my chamber door.

0:58.2

"'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, tapping at my chamber door, only this and nothing more.

1:05.6

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

1:15.2

Eagerly, I wished the morrow, vainly I had sought to borrow from my books' surcease of sorrow.

1:23.0

Sorrow for the lost Lenore, for the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore,

1:33.7

nameless here, forevermore. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

1:40.8

thrilled me, filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

1:47.7

So that now to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, tis some visitor

1:53.4

entreating entrance at my chamber door, some late visitor in treating entrance at my chamber

2:00.5

door.

2:01.8

This it is, and nothing more.

2:05.2

Presently my soul grew stronger, hesitating then no longer.

2:10.3

Sir, said I, or madam, truly your forgiveness, I implore.

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