Welcome to my wee shadowy corner of May Monster Madness 2018, hosted by writer Annie Walls.
My "monster" this year was inspired by Poe's naughty raven. My birdie may not entirely capture Edgar's vision of a "fiend", nor necessarily have eyes that "have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming"... but I love you anyway, my feathered friend!
Excerpt from 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
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