Black Cat, the (1843) [Short Story]
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The narrator, a lover of animals by nature, finds his personality changes after he starts drinking, giving him an increasing hatred of everything - his wife and black cat included...
First published in the Saturday Evening Post, August 19, 1843.
Original title: The Black Cat
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Horror
This work is a subwork of the following works : Tales by Edgar A. Poe (1845) [Collection] Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, the (1938) [Collection] Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Second Pan Book of Horror Stories, the (1960) [Anthology] Authors: Bram Stoker
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Agatha Christie
, H. G. Wells
, Stanley Ellin
, Philip MacDonald
, Geoffrey Household
, Carl Stephenson
, William Sansom
, Oscar Cook
, George Langelaan
, Guy Preston
, Vernon Routh
, Stephen Hall
Book of Cats, the (1976) [Anthology] Authors: Aldous Huxley
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Rudyard Kipling
, Ambrose Bierce
, T. S. Eliot
, John Keats
, Dorothy L. Sayers
, Mark Twain
, William Butler Yeats
, Jean-Paul Sartre
, Thomas Hardy
, Patricia Highsmith
, Robert Graves
, Henry Fielding
, Charles Baudelaire
, Marianne Moore
, Saki
, P.G. Wodehouse
, W. W. Jacobs
, Ogden Nash
, Harvey Jacobs
, Don Marquis
, Ian Serraillier
, Walter de la Mare
, John Gay
, Paul Gallico
, William Carlos Williams
, Ted Hughes
, Alan Sillitoe
, Harold Monro
, Richard Eberhart
, Stevie Smith
, Roger McGough
, Louis MacNeice
, Denise Levertov
, Thomas Gray
, William Cowper
, Robert Southey
, Leigh Hunt
, Edward Thomas
, Christopher Smart
, Théophile Gautier
, Martin Booth
, Mark Van Doren
, Paul Ableman
, Ruth Pitter
, Thomas Master
, William Salmon
, Alan Brownjohn
, Roy Fuller
, Theodore Roosevelt
, Paul Verlaine
, Giles Gordon
, Matthew Prior
, Ewart Milne
, Giles Lytton Strachey
, Ann Currah
, George MacBeth
, Michael Hamburger
, John Bowring
, George Borrow
, Robin Skelton
, Alexander Gray
, Hal Summers
, Geoffrey Holloway
, Robert Leach
, Ernest A. Wallis Budge
, Vernon Scannell
, Jeni Couzyn
, Peter Porter
, Graham Fawcett
, François de La Mothe-Le-Vayer
Edgar Allan Poe: Greenwich Unabridged Library Classics (1981) [Collection] Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Mystery Cats (1991) [Anthology] Authors: Ruth Rendell
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Patricia Highsmith
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Lilian Jackson Braun
, Margaret Maron
, Joyce Harrington
, Edward D. Hoch
, Patricia Moyes
, Hugh B. Cave
, Roy Vickers
, James Holding
, Fred Hamlin
, Mary Reed
, Lillian de la Torre
, Gary Erickson
Selected Tales (1994) [Collection] Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Murder for Halloween (1994) [Anthology] Authors: Bram Stoker
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Peter Straub
, August Derleth
, James Grady
, Robert Bloch
, Dorothy Cannell
, Gahan Wilson
, Marcia Muller
, Peter Lovesey
, Edward D. Hoch
, Anthony Boucher
, Steven Saylor
, Michael Z. Lewin
, Talmage Powell
, Ed McBain
, Ellery Queen
, Judith Garner
Selected Tales (1998) [Collection] Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Master's Choice, Volume II (2000) [Anthology] Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
, Lawrence Block
, Sharyn McCrumb
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, Joyce Carol Oates
, Joe Gores
, Mary Higgins Clark
, Evan Hunter
, Carolyn Wheat
, Edward D. Hoch
, Fredric Brown
, Saki
, Reginald Hill
, Stuart M. Kaminsky
, Mat Coward
, Doug Allyn
, Ian Rankin
, Stanley Ellin
, Clark Howard
, Jack Ritchie
, Susan Glaspell
, William Bankier
, John Russell
, Robert Turner
Feline Felonies (2001) [Anthology] Authors: Ruth Rendell
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Patricia Highsmith
, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Lilian Jackson Braun
, Manly Wade Wellman
, Ellis Peters
, Gene DeWeese
, Joyce Harrington
, Bruce Bethke
, Edward D. Hoch
, P.G. Wodehouse
, Steven Saylor
, Edgar Pangborn
, Patricia Moyes
, Frances Lockridge
, Richard Lockridge
, Clark Howard
, Hugh B. Cave
, Roy Vickers
, A.H.Z. Carr
, James Holding
, Sandra Woodruff
, Nancy Schachterle
, Phyllis Bentley
, Fred Hamlin
, Mary Reed
, Barbara Owens
, Charles Peterson
, Ingram Meyer
, Lael J. Littke
, Lee Somerville
, Lillian de la Torre
, Leslie Meier
, Jimmy Vines
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