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A man recounts how he mutilated and killed his pet cat, Pluto, and the consequences of his actions. The story explores themes of madness, guilt, and superstition in a gothic style.
A man murders his wife and hides her body behind a wall, where a black cat that witnessed the crime shrieks and reveals his crime. The story explores the psychology of guilt, alcoholism, and superstition in Poe's Gothic style.
- Edgar Allan Poe, 晶 渡部
- 1843
The narrator of “The Black Cat” is an animal lover who, as he descends into alcoholism and perverse violence, begins mistreating his wife and his black cat Pluto. When Pluto attacks him in self-defense one night, he seizes the cat in a fury, cuts out one of its eyes, and hangs it.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A man recounts how he murdered his beloved cat Pluto out of madness and perverseness, and how the cat's spirit haunted him as a sign of his impending doom. Read the full text of this classic tale of terror and superstition on Owl Eyes.
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