Nevermore Academy holds their annual competition for the Poe Cup. The various teams racing in the competition must choose their team name based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Each team is depicted bringing their short story of choice to life through their chosen competition strategy.

Nevermore Academy crafts an advertisement to promote the school. Throughout the advertisement, Edgar Allan Poe is depicted as one of Nevermore's famous alumni. The ad highlights Nevermore's inclusiveness on all things weird, supernatural, and horrific, all of which are ideals found in Edgar Poe's writing. Throughout the tour, symbols of Poe's work are seen in the raven sightings scattered throughout the video, as well as a statue of Poe holding a book and raven.

Wednesday is held hostage by her peers at the Nightshade Society headquarters. When questioned by the members, Wednesday explains that she was able to determine the location of the Nightshade entrance by solving a set of riddles. The riddle reveals that the entrance was a large statue of Edgar Allan Poe holding a book and a raven - an allusion to Poe's poem, "The Raven," as well as Poe's fascination for solving riddles and mysteries.

In this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven," Homer is the protagonist, Bart is the raven, Lisa and Maggie are seraphim, and Marge appears briefly as a painting of Lenore.

The word "surrealism has become a catch-all for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory; but when it emerged in Europe during the tenuous turbulent years following world war one and leading into world war two. Surrealism has positions itself not as an escape from life but as a revolution art force within. A movement aimed at the wholesale liberation of the individual. Aesthetic as well as political; literary as well as visual. Lets explore what surrealism is.