Shivers and spooks are on the timetable today with three great short stories.
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the black cat by edgar allan poe this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by cliff stone of sydney australia the black cat by edgar allan poe for the most wild yet most homely narrative which i'm about to pen i neither expect nor solicit belief mad indeed would i be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence yet mad i am not and very surely do i not dream but tomorrow i die and today i would unbirthen my soul my immediate purpose is to place before the world plainly succinctly and without comed a series of mere household events in their consequences these events have terrified have tortured have destroyed me yet i will not attempt to expound them to me they have presented little but horror to many they will seem less terrible than baroques hereafter perhaps some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the commonplace some intellect more calm more logical and far less excitable than my own which will perceive in the circumstances i detail with or nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects from my infancy i was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition my tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the gist of my companions i was especially fond of animals and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets with these i spent most of my time and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them this peculiarity of character grew with my growth and in my manhood i derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure to those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog i need hardly beard the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable there is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man i married early and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own observing my partiality for domestic pets she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind we had birds goldfish a fine dog rabbits a small monkey and a cat this latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal entirely black and sagacious to an astonishing degree in speaking of his intelligence my wife who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise not that she was ever serious upon this point and i mentioned the mata at all for no better reason than that it happens just now to be remembered pluto this was the cat's name was my favorite pet and playmate i alone fed him and he attended me wherever i went about the house it was even with difficulty that i could prevent him from following me through the streets our friendship lasted in this manner for several years during which my general temperament and character through the instrumentality of the fiend in temperance had i blushed to confess it experienced a radical alteration for the worse i grew day by day more moody more irritable more regardless of the feelings of others i suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife at length i even offered her personal violence my pets of course were made to feel the change in my disposition i not only neglected but ill-used them for pluto however i still retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him as i made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits the monkey or even the dog when by accident or through affection they came in my way but my disease grew up on me for what disease is...