 Critics also praised the episode 's relationship to various television shows and Poe 's " The Raven " . Michael <unk> of DVD Verdict described the three Treehouse of Horror segments as " brilliantly crafted tales capturing the best elements of The Twilight Zone , Outer Limits , and Alfred Hitchcock Presents , injecting them into the Simpsons ' universe . " DVD reviewer Doug Pratt described " The Raven " as a " perfect adaptation " . Kurt M. Koenigsberger said in his book Leaving Springfield that The Simpsons , while " not strictly a literary form " , " is certainly the literate of all situation comedies . " Koenigsberger uses " The Raven " as one example in support of the statement " The Simpsons is steeped in the American literary context into which Arnold Bennett made such a splash on his tour in 1911 . " 
