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Revision as of 20:10, 31 July 2018
The Black Cat is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1943. It has a plot similar to The Tell-Tale Heart which was written just a few months earlier. It's about a man who loves animals, but, after becoming an alcoholic, begins hating them, and even becomes sadistic toward them.
Review
Good
- Nothing.
Bad
- I know that alcoholism tends to change a person's outlook on life, but I doubt that it would change an animal lover into one who enjoys killing them.
Ugly
- I'm fine with a story having a moral, but I don't like them to be ham-fisted. This story basically says, if you drink too much you will purposely murder anyone and anything you love, and delight in how well you'll be able to hide their corpses.
Gallery
Unknown artist.
Illustration by Abigail Larson.
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_(short_story) - Wikipedia.
- poestories.com/read/blackcat - Complete text.
- librivox.org/horror-story-collection-005 - LibriVox.
