Once upon a midnight dreary...

In this special reading, Hex & Muse drifts through the flicker of candlelight to meet one of literature’s most haunting visitations Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. First published in 1845, this gothic masterpiece still beats with the same dark music: grief, longing, and the ache of a soul that cannot let go.

Told in rhythmic, hypnotic verse, The Raven is a séance in language a lament that echoes between love and loss, dream and waking.
In this episode, Emily performs the poem aloud as it was meant to be heard: with breath, silence, and reverence. Every “Nevermore” tolls like a bell through the dark, a reminder of how beauty and despair so often share the same heartbeat.

So light your candles, draw the curtains, and listen close.
The air stirs.
A knock upon the chamber door.
And from the shadow, a voice - eternal, mournful - calling once more.

🕯️ Written by Edgar Allan Poe (1845).
🎙️ Read and produced by Emily Esen for Hex & Muse.

Hex & Muse is recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my deepest respects to their Elders past and present - and to all First Nations people, whose stories and spirits continue to shape this land.

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From my altar to yours… thank you for listening.