The Raven-- just a lil' crazy

Way back when I was a kid, I remember talking with my grandfather about authors who were considered sort of 'famous.'  When we talked about Poe, I remember him quoting lines from the Raven. I also remember how it made me feel to see him visibly affected by the very words that were written by the author. The Raven gave him the creeps, literally, and my grandfather was a very brave man. Ironically, I only remembered that just now as I'm writing in this blog. Anyway, as an adult, reading the poem again is still the very same for me today as it was when I read it the first time-- very creepy & weird, but not scary in a sense like scary-movie scary.  Thank God for that! Poe was definetely a great storyteller and puzzlemaker. How many of his readers even stop to ask themselves who Lenore really is/was?