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The Black Cat, for Edgar Allan Poe's 'Tales of Mystery and the Imagination' by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, from the Original, Framed Print
The Black Cat, for Edgar Allan Poe's 'Tales of Mystery and the Imagination' by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, from the Original, Framed Print
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Public domain art from The Rijksmuseum, digitally enhanced from the original in high resolution. Published Chicago, 1895-1896.
'The Black Cat' is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the 19 August 1843, edition of the Saturday Evening Post. In the story, an unnamed narrator, who suffers with alcoholism, has a strong affection for pets, until he perversely turns to abusing them. His favourite, a pet black cat, bites him one night and the narrator punishes it by cutting its eye out. The narrator then becomes conflicted when the black cat fears him. In a drunken rage, he then hangs it from a tree. His house later burns down, but one remaining wall shows a burned outline of a cat hanging from a noose. He soon finds another black cat, similar to the first except for a white mark on its chest.
But he develops a hatred for it as well, for it resembles the cat he killed in his drunken rage. He attempts to kill the cat with an axe but his wife stops him; instead, the narrator murders his wife. He conceals the body behind a brick wall in his basement. The police soon come and, after the narrator's tapping on the wall is met with a shrieking sound, they find not only the wife's corpse but also the black cat that had been accidentally walled in with the body and alerted them with its cry.
The story is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. In both, a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt.
'The Black Cat', which also features questions of sanity versus insanity, is Poe's strongest warning against the dangers of alcoholism.
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