A haunting poem about those you can’t see but are always listening. No, not the Feds. Find the Haunt on Facebook and Twitter at @HalloweenHaunt . More poetry can be found at TheHalloweenHaunt.com.
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Music:
“Remains from the Past” by Grigor Iliev (from Soundclick.com)
“A New Morning” by Persona (from MacJams.com)
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Did you know that Longfellow ruminated on the deceased?He did. Join the Haunt on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt. Also, like the program on Facebook. Find more at TheHalloweenHaunt.com.
Read along with me or bring it along and recite it at a party at HWLongfellow.org.
Music:
Nocturne by Ekho
“Relent” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
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Two poems from the great Emily Dickinson. You might want to have something funny ready for when you’re done. Thank you for giving to the TheHalloweenHaunt.com you’re helping to keep the show going. Scroll down, look to the left if you want to give. Follow the Haunt Twitter @HalloweenHaunt and Facebook (like us, too).
Read along with me with these handy Poets.org links: “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” and “I Cannot Live with You.”
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Music:
“Wounded” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Apprehension” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Descent into Madness” by Adam John Prawlocki (from MacJams.com)
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Our first poems from Walter de la Mare are clearly spooky, just look at the titles. Much more poetry, stories and other Halloween frightfulness at TheHalloweenHaunt.com. That’s also where you can help keep the Halloween Haunt online. Find other angles of the Haunt on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt and on our Facebook page.
Read along if you’d like, “The Haunted” and “The Raven’s Tomb”. Much more poetry can be found at Public-Domain-Poetry.com.
Music:
Nocturne by Ekho
“Quinn’s Song: A New Man” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“The Pyre” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We return to the lovely belle of Amherst, Emily Dickinson. First we present “The Soul has Bandaged Moments” and then “I Heard a Fly Buzz.” Stay in the know with the Haunt on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, on our Facebook page, and on Google+. Hear more poems and stories perfect for the season at TheHalloweenHaunt.com.
Music:
“Measured Paces” by Kevin McLeod (from Incompetech.com)
“Together” by Tony Longworth from “Tinsel and Fire”
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“Hollow” by Tony Longworth from “Aberration (Original Soundtrack)”
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I bet you didn’t know the computer company was founded by a classic gothic author, did you? No? That’s because it wasn’t. The Halloween Haunt is on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, on Facebook, and Google+. Find more poetry and stories at TheHalloweenHaunt.com.
Read along with me and find much more at HPLovecraft.com
Music:
“Zombie Hoodoo” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Unnatural Situation” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
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It’s hard to believe, but I have never featured this great poet in the Haunt. I remedy this with a lovely ditty about heading into the afterlife. See you on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, on Facebook, and Google+. Tell me what poems and stories you want to hear at TheHalloweenHaunt.com.
Read along and find more poetry at Poets.org.
Music:
“Nervous” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Two Souls in the Darkness” by Tony Longworth from “Dead In Love original soundtrack”
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Perhaps the most disturbing poem ever presented in the Halloween Haunt, it unsettles on several levels. Find more stories and poems at TheHalloweenHaunt.com. Like the Halloween Haunt on Facebook, follow me on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, and put me in a Google+ circle.
Read the poem for yourself at ThingsThatGoBoo.
Music:
“Measured Paces,” “Despair and Triumph,” and “Interloper” by Kevin McLeod (from Incompetech.com).
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It’s not the land of Aquaman or Sub-Mariner. This city in the sea is decidedly morbid. Enjoy. Tell us your favorite Poe, and possibly find it at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com. Make sure you circle our Google+ page, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt.
Read the classic for yourself at EAPoe.org.
Music:
“Nervous” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Relent” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
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Oviparous means laying eggs, more or less. I’ll let you look up tailor. The mind of Mr. Beddoes was always on overdrive–before overdrive existed. Somebody should write a movie based on this poem. Find more gothic poetry, fiction and history on HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com. You can also find the Haunt on Facebook. Google+. and Twitter @HalloweenHaunt.
Read along on Phantom Wooer: The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Website.
Music:
“Classic Horror 1” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Scarecrows” by Sam Haynes from the album “Welcome to the Horror Show”
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Perhaps his favorite poem, we delve into the mournful mind of Mr. Poe. Much more Poe can be found on HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com. Circle the Haunt on Google+, follow the Haunt on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, and (sigh) like us on Facebook.
Read the classic for yourself at EAPoe.org.
Music:
“Remains from the Past” by Grigor Iliev (from Soundclick.com)
“Rites” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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On the anniversary of his death, we return to the dark mind of Mr. Poe with his final completed poem before he died. It was released posthumously. Our Google+ page, Facebook and Twitter @HalloweenHaunt are a few places you can find me. And many poems and stories are waiting for you at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
Read the poem for yourself at Poets.org.
Music:
“Remains from the Past” by Grigor Iliev (from Soundclick.com)
“Ghosts LoveTheme” by Darius Holbert (from GarageBand.com)
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We return to the troubled mind of T.L. Beddoes with two more poems: “Song on the Water”and “A Lament.” Tell us your favorite poet on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, on Facebook, or at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
Some music:
“Relent” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
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I’ve missed Thomas Lovell Beddoes, so here is another poem from the gothic master. If there are any authors you would like to hear in the Haunt, please tell us at at Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, or on our Facebook page, or HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
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Music:
“A New Morning” by Persona (from MacJams.com)
“Misery” by Six-Nail-Coffin (Adam John Prawlocki) (from MacJams.com)
“The Serpent Mound” by Laura Sullivan from “Mystical America” (Sentient Spirit Records)
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We again descend into the dark mind of Mr. Beddoes with two poems: “To Night” and “Voices in the Air.” Share your favorite at Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, on Facebook, and on HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
Read “To Night” or “Voices in the Air” yourself.
Learn about, and perhaps join, the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society.
Background music:
“Femme” by the Tempest Brothers
“Wounded” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Serpentine Trek” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
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We begin this season with a chilling poem by Lord Lytton, an exceedingly popular British author and poet. Tell us what your favorite poem or story is at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com, on Twitter @HalloweenHaunt, and on Facebook.
If you would like to read “The Vampiress,” you can. Be careful, though, there is a picture of a vampiress that resembles Vampirella.
Learn more about Lord Lytton from Wikipedia.com.
Background Music:
“Wounded” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Death by Guillotine” by DJ Daddio
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Presented in its entirety, this is the longest episode so far from the Halloween Haunt. Thank you for pushing me to do it, Natalie. Let us know what you think on Facebook, Twitter @HalloweenHaunt and HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
For your own reading, you can turn to The Poe Museum, which is in Richmond, VA.
Mr. Poe was finally given a proper funeral, 16o years after his death. I meant to do an episode on it. I may, still, next year.
Music includes:
“Remains from the Past” by Grigor Iliev (from Soundclick.com)
“Prayers for the Dying” by Chamber of Sorrows (from Soundclick.com)
“Gagool” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
“Depression” by Twilight Productions
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There were so many great women Gothic writers, that it is about time that we present a piece from one: Mary Darby Robinson. This one will work in summer, too, when you need a little dreariness. Please share your favorite poems and stories at our Facebook page or Twitter @HalloweenHaunt and of course, HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
The University of Pennsylvania provided the text and has a nice biography of Ms. Robinson.
Music:
Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” by classicala (from Soundclick.com)
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Mister Beddoes was not known for his jocularity, but he seemed to be in a good mood when he wrote these lines for his play-in-verse, Death’s Jest-Book. More can be found at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com. Please join us on Facebook and Twitter @HalloweenHaunt.
Read the snippet from Beddoes’s unofficial “fan club,” PhantomWooer.org.
Read Death’s Jest-Book in its entirety.
Music:
Nocturne by Ekho (from GarageBand.com)
“Classic Horror 2” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)
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Here is another poem that feels right this time of year, by the inimitable Edgar Allan Poe. It was published in 1827. Please let us know what poems and stories you would like to hear at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
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The moon is making me feel romantic, so I present a poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes entitled, “The Phantom-Wooer.” Full shownotes at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com, and please let us know if this made you feel romantic.
To find out more about the sad life of Mr. Beddoes, please check the Literary Gothic.
I found this poem in this book.
Music:
“Gargoyle” by Sean Timms (from GarageBand.com)
“Tempest” by the Brothers Femme
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Background music:
“Remains From the Past” by Gregor Iliev (just a little piece–it’s worth listening to the whole piece. You may yet hear the whole thing in the Halloween Haunt)
“Ghost That Still Haunts Me” Demo by Chamber of Sorrows (from the CD Dies Arae)
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More poetry, this time from the dark and twisted mind of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, a favorite gothic poet. It makes us feel simply horrible. Please tell us how this poem affects you at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
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We descend again into the deeply dark mind of Edgar Allan Poe, as he describes “The Haunted Palace” as only he can. Poe’s mind is a twisted place no one should have to go…but we love to dally there voluntarily. Please illuminate your dark mind at HalloweenHaunt.wordpress.com.
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As promised, a creepy, spooky poem from the disturbed mind of Edgar Allan Poe, author of the classic poem, “The Raven.” Please let us know what you think at halloweenhaunt.wordpress.com.
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