<i>Poe!</i> is a deliciously gripping sampling of the mad imagination of 19th century gothic master of horror and suspense murder and mayhem Edgar Allan Poe. The creepy breathtaking and soulful classic tales include: “The Masque of the Red Death” the terrifying and ironic story of a nobleman who attempts to seal himself and his friends away from a terrible plague raging outside performed by Fionnula Flanagan (Transamerica); “The Pit and the Pendulum” a hair-raising first-person account of a man in a torture chamber during the Spanish Inquisition performed to a fare-thee-well by Stephen Lang (Avatar); “The Black Cat” in which a man’s dead pet comes back to haunt him performed by Tony winner Rene Auberjonois (Boston Legal). Plus there are dreamy mesmerizing and haunting readings of Poe’s wonderfully-atmospheric best-loved poems “The Bells” “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.”