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The Black Cat

  • Edgar Allan Poe

4.14

14 ratings

"The Black Cat" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. In the story, an unnamed narrator has a strong affection for pets until he perversely turns to abusing them.


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Genres

  • fiction
  • horror fiction
  • cats
  • Children's fiction
  • short story
  • first-person narrative
  • unreliable narrators
  • self-hatred
  • gallows
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
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About the author

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

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    390 ratings · 4027 works

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    Independently published, Independently Published

    Oct 25, 2018

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    Independently Published, Independently published

    Oct 25, 2018

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Nov 01, 2015

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    4th edition

    Anaya

    2006

  • Fiction, horror
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    Ediciones Generales Anaya

    June 1984

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    Independently published, Independently Published

    Oct 25, 2018

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    Guadal

    October 2004

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    1999-02-04

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    Audiocite

    2009-09-21

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    Independently published, Independently Published

    May 03, 2019

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    Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Apr 21, 2016

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Apr 26, 2016

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    printing (3)

    Worthington Press, Worthington Pr

    1995

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    BookSurge Classics

    February 2, 2004

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    Independently Published

    2019

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    Lumen Espana

    August 1996

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    Edris

    March 1998

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    Cheloniidae Press

    1984

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    Independently Published

    2020

  • Edition cover

    2016

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    Spoken Arts

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    Abridged Ed edition

    Longman

    December 10, 1998

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    Library Binding edition

    Creative Education

    July 1985

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    2. ed.

    Editorial dos Continentes

    1971

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    Northeastern University Press

    1986

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    Cheloniidae Press

    1984

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    Shinchōsha

    1951

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    New Ed edition

    Moyer Bell

    July 2007

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    Book&Cass edition

    Balance Pub Co

    June 1989

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    [1a ed.].

    Brosquil Edicions, Albur Producciones Editoriales, La Panoplia Export

    2005

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    1st paperbound ed.

    Moyer Bell, Publishers Group West [distributor]

    1994

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    Sohan

    Kawade Shobō

    1968