The Night's Plutonian Shore

[bboyminn]

Just wanted to add that there are two definitive versions of the
Raven on YouTube.

One by ...yes, that's right... Homer Simpson. There is something
about his voice that so clearly captures the feelings of the
moment. You should really listen, it is very good. Though, I 
think because of time constraints, they skip one or two middle
verses.

The second is, of course, James Earl Jones. Mostly the cadence
of his voice. He really captures the story in a way the flows
like natural language.

A few others that are worth a look -

Vincent Price gives a dramatic reading as part of his, now
long gone, TV show. He does other classics as well. The video
quality is not so good, and other than being a little overly
dramatic in spots, and having a tendency to excessively roll 
his 'R's. This is very good.

Christopher Walken also does a nice version, though they 
insisted on augmenting it with scary background music that 
just muddies the voice of Walken. It would have been great 
without the background music.

Finally, John Astin, while he is a reasonably good actor, in 
this case he just plows through it. Very little natural 
cadence to his voice. 

Worth a look.

Steve/bboyminn