This time of year, when famous people sit by the fire to read a famous poem aloud, it’s almost invariably “’Twas The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Moore. But legendary comics writer and author Neil Gaiman is offering up something decidedly different this yuletide season: a reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s immortal “The Raven,” a poem that usually gets more attention at Halloween. The eerie ode itself, with its lamentations for “the lost Lenore,” is not exactly heartwarming, but Gaiman’s motives are. Each year, the nonprofit organization Worldbuilders (“Geeks doing good”) auctions off the chance to have Gaiman read a poem or book of the winner’s choosing. This time around, the high bidder wanted “The Raven,” and Gaiman was happy to oblige. A video of Gaiman reading the Poe classic has been posted to the author’s own YouTube channel, where he writes: