Musical connections
As I said, if I could link in music I would, so here are a few songs, even albums, that have been influenced by Poe’s writings. There are in fact far too many to catalogue them all, so I’ve tried to concentrate on bands I know, or know of.
Tales of mystery and imagination --- The Alan Parsons Project ---1970
This was the Alan Parsons Project’s first album, and every song concerns or is based upon stories or poems Poe wrote, including “The system of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather”, “To one in Paradise” and of course “The Raven”.
Almost half a century prior to that though,
Andre Caplet was setting “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The tale of Arthur Gordon Pym” to music in his “Conte fantastique”, published in 1924.
Joan Baez recorded her version of the last poem Poe ever wrote, “Annabel Lee”, in 1967.
Queen’s “Nevermore” was based on “The Raven”
And of course
Iron Maiden recorded “Murders in the Rue Morgue” for their second album.
“The Fall of the House of Usher” was made into an opera by Van der Graaf Generator’s
Peter Hammill in 1991
Even the late
Lou Reed recorded an album called “The Raven” in 2003, featuring spoken and musical interpretations of Poe’s work
Nightwish have a song called “The Poet and the Pendulum”...
... and
Symphony X use it as the basis for their song “King of terrors”