A full unabridged audiobook of the classic gothic story, "The Black Cat", by Edgar Allan Poe - complete with sounds and visuals. "The Black Cat" was first published in the August 19th 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. His favourite, a pet black cat, bites him one night and the narrator punishes it by cutting its eye out and then hanging it from a tree. The story is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and is Poe's strongest warning against the dangers of alcoholism.

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