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12/09/2026

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was first published in 1845 and has since become one of the most recognizable poems in American literature — a dark meditation on grief, memory, obsession, and the inability to let go.

At its center is a man mourning the loss of Lenore, visited in the middle of the night by a mysterious raven. What begins almost like a strange interruption slowly turns into something far more unsettling, as every question he asks is answered with the same word:

“Nevermore.”

For this adaptation, I wanted to treat the poem less like a recitation and more like a true gothic song — slow, restrained, and increasingly heavy as the narrator sinks deeper into his own thoughts.

The music follows that descent: from quiet mourning and loneliness into something darker, almost claustrophobic, while keeping Poe’s imagery and dramatic rhythm at the center of the piece.

There is something timeless about “The Raven.” Beneath all the gothic symbolism, it is ultimately a story about a very human thing — asking questions when we already know there may be no answer capable of bringing someone back.

🎵 Musical adaptation: STRIGOI Archives
✍️ Original poem: Edgar Allan Poe, 1845

10/09/2026

H. P. Lovecraft — Nemesis | music adaption of this amazing poem.

09/09/2026

H. P. Lovecraft — Nemesis | musical adaptation

09/09/2026

A musical adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s 1917 poem of the same name. This is not a word-for-word performance of the complete original text. Lovecraft’s poem contains eleven stanzas; for this version, I condensed and reshaped the material into six shorter verses so it could function naturally as a song, while staying as close as possible to the original atmosphere, imagery and central idea.

The adaptation keeps some of the poem’s most recognizable Lovecraftian images — the “ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,” endless ages, sinister seas, dead civilizations, ancient Egypt and the suggestion of a soul carrying an unnamed guilt across countless lifetimes. Other passages were rewritten or combined to create a more regular meter, rhyme and musical progression.

What fascinated me most about “Nemesis” is that it already contains many of the ideas that would later become inseparable from Lovecraft’s work: immeasurable stretches of time, black and nameless worlds, vanished civilizations and the frightening possibility that human existence is only a tiny fragment of something unimaginably older.

Lovecraft wrote the poem on November 1, 1917, when he was 27 years old. It was first published in The Vagrant in June 1918.

That makes “Nemesis” particularly interesting in retrospect. Lovecraft would not write The Call of Cthulhu until the summer of 1926, almost nine years later, yet the cosmic scale that would eventually define much of his fiction is already clearly visible here.

The narrator of “Nemesis” appears to have wandered through more than one lifetime. He remembers worlds and civilizations that should be impossibly ancient, until the poem gradually reveals that his suffering may be connected to some forgotten transgression for which there is seemingly no final escape. The horror is therefore not simply in the landscapes he sees, but in the possibility that his punishment has been continuing for ages.

06/09/2026

More than four centuries old, these words come from William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, where they appear in the closing song sung by Feste. Yet taken outside the theatre, the repeated refrain — “the wind and the rain” — carries a strangely timeless rhythm of its own.

For this version, I wanted to follow that feeling somewhere Shakespeare never explicitly placed it: out to sea.

The song has been reimagined with the atmosphere of an old maritime folk song — something that could have been sung by sailors aboard a weather-beaten ship, somewhere between a tavern chorus and a sea shanty. The wind, the rain, the passing of time and the resigned humour of Shakespeare’s words fit surprisingly naturally into that world.

There is also a deliberate touch of the pirate atmosphere many of us associate with games such as Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and songs like “Leave Her Johnny” — not because Shakespeare’s song belongs to that tradition, but because its refrain seems almost made for rolling waves, wooden decks and voices singing together against the weather.

More than 400 years later, the words still travel remarkably well.

William Shakespeare — The Wind and the Rain
from Twelfth Night

Reimagined by STRIGOI Archives.

06/09/2026

500 years ago “The Wind and the Rain” comes from the closing moments of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a play believed to have been written around 1601. Sung by Feste, the Fool, it arrives only after the confusion, disguises, heartbreak, mistaken identities and tangled love stories of the play have finally begun to resolve.

And then, when almost everyone else has left the stage, Feste remains.

His final song is not a grand celebration of the happy ending.

Instead, he sings about growing up.

About childhood becoming adulthood. About the world becoming more complicated. About love, foolishness, disappointment, drinking, responsibility and the strange fact that, no matter what stage of life we reach:

“For the rain it raineth every day.”

It is a remarkably simple idea for a song written more than 400 years ago.

Life does not suddenly become easy when we grow older. Love does not protect us from disappointment. Happiness does not mean the difficult days have disappeared. There will always be wind. There will always be rain.

And perhaps that is exactly why these words have survived.

04/09/2026

Can you guess the poem?

04/09/2026

Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee, reimagined in music.

A poem written more than 175 years ago, still carrying the same love, loss, and longing today.

This is our musical interpretation of one of Poe’s most haunting works — bringing old words back to life through sound.

03/09/2026

The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe ❤️🐦‍⬛

12/02/2026

The most epic scene to the day | my original song

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