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Inside gloomily lit, intimate theater rooms, Edgar Allan Poe himself bids all welcome to an evening of spine-tingling tales. Bizarre characters from Poe’s tales of mystery and mayhem, step out of his pages to recount several of his Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque. No dramatic presentation of Poe’s works would be complete without a rendition of “The Raven,” his enduring poem of a love lost, a living death, and a persistent, unwelcome tap-tap-tapping visitor. Interspersed throughout the evening are more tales of woe, unrequited love and other recitations designed to elevate the consciousness of the soul and the spirit.