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The Devil In The Belfry is a satirical short story by Edgar Allen Poe. In the Orchestra entry in Fantastic Worlds, it is referenced as if it is the song being played, but the context of the story may imply that the orchestra are creating anarchy through their music.


From Wikipedia - In an isolated town called Vondervotteimittis, the punctilious inhabitants seem to be concerned with nothing but clocks and cabbage. This methodical, boring and quiet little borough is devastated by the arrival of a devilish figure playing a big fiddle who comes straight down from a hill, goes into the belltower, brutally attacks the belfry-man and rings thirteen o'clock, to the horror of the town's inhabitants.

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