Hello, gentle listener, and welcome to Nocturnal Transmissions, the fortnightly podcast that brings you dark tales both old and new, performed by voice artist, Kristen Holland.

We do so enjoy reading your emails, and their concomitant submissions, suggestions, demands, and provocations.

You know, by far the writer,

you, our beloved audience,

most request to hear featured on the show,

is Mr. Edgar Allan Poe,

168 years below ground

and still demanding our attentions and affections.

We endeavour with no great reluctance, I must add, to honour your wishes this episode,

as we yet again feature a tale from the wonderful Mr. Poe.

On this occasion, we will be celebrating his most iconic work.

Nocturnal transmissions is proud to present Edgar Allan Poe's

The Raven

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

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

"'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, tapping at my chamber door.

Only this and nothing more.

"'Ah, distinctly, I remember it was in the bleak December, and each separate dying ember wrought its

ghost upon the floor. Eagerly, I wished the morrow. Vainly I had sought to borrow from my book's

surcease of sorrow. Sorrow for the lost Lenore, for the rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore,

nameless here for evermore. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me, filled me with fantastic

terrors never felt before, so that now to still the beating of my heart I stood repeating,

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