![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His father, David Poe, Jr.,ĭeserted the family. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYĪmerican poet, critic, and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. ![]() As such, it is typical of Poe's work as a whole, and is an example of why his work is read more often today than the work of any other American writer of the nineteenth century. The story is at once a chilling tale that is hard to put down and a psychological study of an extremely disturbed mind. He abused and then killed his pet cat, and then murdered his long-suffering wife. When he was young he was gentle-natured and kind to animals, but in adulthood he fell into drunkenness. "The Black Cat" is a horrifying story of animal abuse and murder, told in the first person by a man who undergoes an alarming change of character. It is currently available in a number of editions, including Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems (2003). The story was reprinted in Poe's Tales in 1845 and has rarely, if ever, been out of print since. Poe considered it one of his best tales, and it was immediately popular. Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Black Cat," was first published in the United States Saturday Post (later known as the Saturday Evening Post) in August, 1843. ![]()
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