As is often the case with real life murderers, we can't pinpoint exactly why he went out of control. It's the death-row confession of nameless man who destroys himself, his wife, and his pets. Stripped to bare bones, it's a story about domestic violence and brutal murder. Like many news stories, "The Black Cat" can be a downer. Gruesome news items were just as popular in Poe's time as they are in ours. This lurid tale reads like something right out of the headlines – bizarre headlines to be sure. We think a newspaper is a perfect place for it. It was first printed on August 19, 1843, in the Philadelphia edition of a newspaper called the United States Saturday Post. " The Black Cat" is a famous short story from horror-master Edgar Allan Poe.
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