The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe

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One of my favorite memories of scaring
myself as a child was getting a compilation

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book of Edgar Awlan Poe stories from
my elementary school library. It brought me

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so much fear and so much excitement. I remember running home from school with

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that book in my backpack as the
sky was dark and a storm was coming.

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I was in my childhood living room, but I wasn't alone. I

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had a pizza and the books of
Poe. Every so often I'll bring you

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a tale of Poe, and I
hope it gives you that scary fun sense,

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just the same as it does for
me. When the clock strikes midnight,

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the story will begin. The Haunted
Palace by Edgar Allan Poe, in

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the greenest of our valleys, by
good angels tenanted. Once a fair and

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stately palace, snow white palace reared
its head in the monarch thoughts demand it

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stood there. Never saraph spread his
pinion over fabric half so fair banner's yellow,

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glorious golden on its roof did float
and flow. This all this was

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in the olden time, long ago, And every gentle air that dallied in

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that sweet day along the rampant plumed
and pallid, a winged odor went away.

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All wanderers in that happy valley through
two luminous windows saw spirits moving musically

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to a lute's well tuned law,
round about a throne, where sitting preforgerene

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in state, his glory well befitting
the sovereign of the realm was seen,

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And all with pearl and ruby glowing
was the fair palace door, through which

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came flowing, flowing, flowing,
and sparkling evermore, a troop of echoes,

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whose sweet duty was but to sing
in voices of surpassing beauty, the

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wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things in robes of sorrow assail'd

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the monarch's high es state, ah
let us mourn, for never morrow shall

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dawn upon him, desolate and round
about his home. The glory that blush'd

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and bloom'd is but a dim remembered
story of the old time. Entuned and

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travelers now within that valley, through
the red litten windows sea vast forms that

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move fantastically to a discordant melody,
while like a rapid, ghastly river,

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through the pale door, a hideous
throng rush out forever and laugh but smile

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no more more