{"id":6673,"date":"2026-10-29T12:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:37:17","slug":"6-songs-inspired-by-the-writing-of-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/6-songs-inspired-by-the-writing-of-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Songs Inspired by the Writing of Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edgar Allan Poe is one of our most enduring horror writers, with stories and poems which still chill and unsettle readers well over a century after his death. Poe\u2019s work has been adapted countless times for film and television, but it\u2019s also been explored in music, from retellings of his stories to poems set to music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cNevermore\u201d by Queen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen - Nevermore (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lXwT7mxmf8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poe&#8217;s famous poem &#8220;The Raven&#8221; inspired Queen&#8217;s track &#8220;Nevermore.&#8221; Although the two have little to do with each other, the song takes its title from the word repeated in the poem and uses it throughout the song. \u201cNevermore\u201d is part of the second side of <em>Queen II<\/em>, consisting entirely of songs written by Freddie Mercury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cPremature Burial\u201d by Siouxsie and the Banshees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premature Burial\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-vUQR1IIRZI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siouxsie and the Banshees\u2019 \u201cPremature Burial,\u201d from their 1979 album <em>Join Hands<\/em>, was named after a Poe story exploring the fear of being buried alive. The song explores this in other ways. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/siouxsie-and-the-banshees\/premature-burial\">Siouxsie Sioux explained<\/a> that it\u2019s &#8220;an expression of claustrophobia, of being hemmed in both by society&#8217;s and people&#8217;s limitations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cAnnabel Lee\u201d by Stevie Nicks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Annabel Lee\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/doJSRSWQkV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few artists have set Poe\u2019s poem \u201cAnnabel Lee\u201d\u2014the final poem he wrote before his death\u2014to music, but one of the most famous was Stevie Nicks. Although she wrote it when she was just 17, she didn\u2019t release it until 2011, when she released the album <em>In Your Dreams<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cDream Within a Dream\u201d by The Yardbirds<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Yardbirds - Dream Within A Dream\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFX2Jot2xoc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Yardbirds turned Poe\u2019s 1849 poem \u201cA Dream Within a Dream\u201d into a song\u2014they adapted part of the first stanza and all of the second. The song also changes the order of some of the lines, with its opening lines instead serving as the final verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cMurders in the Rue Morgue\u201d by Iron Maiden<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Murders in the Rue Morgue (2015 Remaster)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sedQNTpZ7A0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For their second album, <em>Killers<\/em>, Iron Maiden reimagined Poe\u2019s 1841 short story \u201cMurders in the Rue Morgue\u201d in their song of the same name. Like the story, the song is about the strange and gruesome murders of a mother and daughter in a Paris morgue, with one change\u2014in the story, the killer is revealed to be an orangutang, while in the song, the narrator is the killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cThe Raven\u201d by The Alan Parsons Project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Raven\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_oOBt4L9ky4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Raven\u201d is just one song of many by The Alan Parsons Project inspired by Poe\u2019s writing\u2014the band\u2019s entire debut album, <em>Tales of Mystery and Imagination<\/em>, is based on it. \u201cWe wanted to instil the emotions that film-goers got from an Edgar Allan Poe story,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/the-prog-interview-alan-parsons-on-abbey-road-the-beatles-and-more\">Parsons said\u00a0in a 2019 interview<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Allan Poe is one of our most enduring horror writers, with stories and poems which still chill and unsettle readers well over a century after his death. 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