There’s very few authors I can return to again and again, re-reading the same material over and over and be thrilled each and every time. I probably read Orwell’s “Animal Farm” once a year, and there’s always a few others that get re-read here and there, but it’s minimal. But every year around Halloween I go on a Poe kick and tear through a bevy of his short stories, and every year I enjoy the shit out of it. Stories like the Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado honestly seem to get better each and every time I read them.

John De Lancie (“Q” from Star Trek) takes a run at performing The Raven in the clip below and I gotta say he knocks it out of the damn park. This isn’t a reading of the poem, even though he’s just looking at the camera the entire time this man is acting – with his voice alone – and doing a damn good job.

Enjoy your Halloween everyone!