HOLYOKE — What do Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” and Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” all have in common?

Aside from being three examples of classic gothic literature, they’re also the inspirations behind Shadow, Sound, Spectacle, a Western Massachusetts-based troupe that blends songs and storytelling with shadow puppetry and video. They will perform at Wistariahurst Museum on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m.

“Western education puts a lot of emphasis on studying writers of the 1800s and early 1900s. That tends to be a period of great upheaval and industrial change, and I think that resonates nicely with all the upheaval we feel in any generation,” said singer-songwriter Jess Martin who, along with puppeteer Amy West and performer and videogra

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