The Black Cat
Dark feline story
"The Black Cat" is an 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, a classic of Gothic horror featuring an unreliable narrator who descends into alcoholism and murder, with the titular cat serving as an agent of guilt and supernatural retribution.
The story helped establish conventions of psychological horror in American literature.
The title has been used for numerous film adaptations and other works only loosely connected to Poe's original.
- PoeAmerican gothic writer's surname
- short storyBrief prose fiction
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- superstitionBaseless belief in omens
- bad luckUnfavorable chance events
Edgar Allan Poe · feline · darkness · midnight · unlucky · omen · witchcraft · Halloween · yellow eyes · shadow · sleek · glowing eyes · sinister · tavern · guilt · murder · animal cruelty · cellar
The Black CatA Christmas Carol
Holiday tale of transformation
Pollyanna · Little Women · Anne of Green Gables · Charlotte's Web · The Secret Garden
The Black Catwhite dove
four-leaf clover · guardian angel · white cat · good luck charm · horseshoe
black, cat, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness, blackish