Oh well, what can you do. It probably helps that a lot of high schools (up here at least) seem to require some study of the Raven, so I'm sure that it has been many a kid's first introduction into the darker...realms, works, whatever.
Heheh, I used to be one of those gawf kids, though thankfully not anymore. Not even goth these days, I got kidnapped by the raw intensity and awesome people of punk rock