Jun 2024

12m 49s

Horror Poetry to Soothe You

Bloody FM

About this episode

Let's read some horror poetry.

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To read along:

A Child's Nightmare by Robert Graves: https://www.bartleby.com/120/35.html

The Shadow on the Stone by Thomas Hardy: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...

Because I Could Not Stop for Death (479) by Emily Dickinson: https://poets.org/poem/because-i-coul...

The Fairies by William Allingham: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org...

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