A Chilling Tale: The Oval Portrait (Edgar Allan Poe)

A Chilling Tale: The Oval Portrait (Edgar Allan Poe)

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May 4, 2026 · 9 min

About this episode

This episode features a reading of Edgar Allan Poe's chilling short story 'The Oval Portrait' accompanied by soft background music.

Good Evening Friends, Fiends, and Night Owl Supremes! Got a lot on your mind lately? Let's... try to calm it with this lonely, wistful, and slightly chilling short Poe story. I suppose it's not lonely as we are in it together, but the same cannot be said for the Woman who sat for this particular portrait. She sat, so close, yet so far, from her love, and though he looked at her for hours, days, weeks... he never saw her. A true tragedy! Is his masterpiece painting haunted? Does her ghost or spirit linger between worlds? This short ghost story, "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe, is read in a soft voice and set to some eerie and soft background music. I do hope you enjoy the this evening's spookier short story! "Reaching Out, Blue Feather, Shadowlands 2" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This tale, "The Oval Portrait," is by Edgar Allan Poe, and is now in public domain. I have added my voice, my thoughts, and Creative Commons music (above). This episode originally released on YouTube on May 8, 2020. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at…

People in this episode

Host: a bit late

Topics covered

  • ghost story
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • portrait
  • tragedy
  • art
  • haunting

Keywords

  • Poe
  • ghost story
  • Oval Portrait
  • haunting
  • tragedy
  • art
  • short story

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kevin MacLeod

Books & works: The Oval Portrait

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