the simpsons love poe

I remember as a child watching tree house of horrors and featuring an adaptation of edgar allan poes 'the raven' where homer plays the main narrator, bart plays the bird and marge makes an appearance as his lost Lenore. 
After my previous reserch i realised that the voice over is actually that of James Earl Jones, and while on its own the feeling of the narration is different and i personally felt didnt really work, in context with the video has it changed my mind? well yes i feel it has, which is important to think of, its totally changed how i view his narration now that with the visuals it seems to work better. 
While the poem seemed rushed it was very much an interesting take of the poem, made both 'horror' and comedy with some of our best love characters.  
Again it seems to stick to the local of the very old fashioned traditional lib setting, almost like the vincent price reading from my previous post.I like the way its set as a story within a story and the simpsons character interject with the narration over the top, it was either that or have the narration speak it and the character mouth it but with a much loved show like the simpsons i dont think it would be as affective.

Other then this, the simpsons also use the story of 'the tell-tale heart' with is a Poe short story as a basis for a plot!  In the episode Lisa's rival or 'telltalemind' as some refer it to, we see lisa competeing with a girl who is as good as she as everything, when she sabbotages this girls work, lisa is rawt with guilt like the story in which a person goes mad with guilt after murdering someone, they also actually reference the story in the plot as the work they are doing that gets sabbotaged. Most of the links come in the last 5mins of the show, but the interesting bit for me is when the 'heartbeat' that drove the murderer to confess in the story, drives lisa to come clean about the work. Its just another way in which the idea or the actual story of poes has been used in a different situation. 
Also the simpsons also feature many other links to poe:
In the episode "Saturdays of Thunder", a TV advert shows Poe's tombstone being cleaned by Dr. Nick Riviera. In the episode "Lisa the Simpson", the House of Usher is shown exploding in the fictional Fox show When Buildings Collapse. In the episode "Homer's Triple Bypass", Homer rams Hans Moleman driving a truck with a house on the back. The sign on the house reads "birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe".