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· Year: 2000
· Contributors: Peter Doell, Larry Moss, Paul Tavenner (narrators), Edgar Allan Poe (author)
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1. Spirits of the Dead
2. A Ghost or a Vampire?
3. Do You Know Where the Children Are?
4. Spirit Calling
5. Hooked
6. Don't Drink with Strangers
7. The Lick
8. The Girl of His Dreams
9. Comfort Lies in the Dark
10. The Raven
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A collection of classic poems and urban legends, told with musical accompaniment.
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Opening and closing the album are two poems by Edgar Allan Poe (a nice reading of "Spirits of the Dead" and the album's worst track, a completely unatmospheric "The Raven," respectively), and the second track is an adaptation of the mystery of Mary Brown of Exeter, Rhode Island, a tale tied in to vampire lore. However, the meat of Tales from the Tomb is seven urban legends that almost everyone has heard at one point or another--the one about the escaped lunatic with a hook for a hand, the one about a man who wakes up the morning after a hot date in a tub of ice and with a phone in his hand, the one that says you should always watch what you're doing, and the one that says sometimes its more conducive to your health to just leave the lights off. The story that gave rise to Chicago's Resurrection Mary and Ramapo Valley's Violet also gets another permutation here. While I can't say Tomb adds anything new to these urban legends, the performances are enthusiastic and exciting. In short, this album is great fun.
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