Happy birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! Check out some of his creepiest stories and poems

It's been nearly 200 years since Edgar Allan Poe established himself as one of the world's all-time great horror writers — but his tales of the macabre have lost none of their mesmerizing power.

Today — which would have been Poe's 206th birthday — take a little time to appreciate some of his best-known works. Here's a creepy animated take on The Tell-Tale Heart:

Here's a similarly disturbing riff on the The Cask of Amontillado:

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And here's James Earl Jones reading "The Raven":

Of course, if you're not feeling quite so reverent, you could always go with The Simpsons' classic take on the poem:

Happy birthday, Edgar.