An edition of The Black Cat (1914)

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An edition of The Black Cat (1914)

The black cat

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"The Black Cat" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 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.


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18 Best Stories
6 nouvelles fantastiques
Best Horror Stories
Best Known Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Best Short Stories
Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Campfire Chillers
Charles Keeping's Book of Classic Ghost Stories
Chat noir et autres contes fantastiques
Chat noir et autres nouvelles
Chat noir et autres nouvelles
Chat noir et autres nouvelles
Chat noir et autres récits fantastique
Closed on Account of Rabies
Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Together with a selection from his stories
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Tales and Poems
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Creepy Classics II
Cuentos clásicos del norte: Primera Serie
Edgar Allan Poe Reader
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness
Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Fall of the House of Usherand Four Other Tales
Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Fall of the House of Usher and other stories
Feline Felonies
Forty-Two Tales
Gato negro y otros cuentos
Ghostly
Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Great Tales of Terror
Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction: Second Edition
Histoires mysterieuses
Historias estraordinarias
Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe
In the Shadow of the Master
Librivox Short Story Collection 074
Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told
Major Tales and Poems
Maske des roten Todes und andere Geschichten
Master's Choice: Volume II
Memoir-Tales
Murder for Halloween
Mysteries and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Mystery Cats
Mystery Tales
Mystery Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Narraciones extraordinarias
Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires
Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires
Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires
Personal Poe Collection
Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Purr-Fect Crime
Racconti del terrore
Raven and Other Writings
Realm of fiction: 61 short stories
Saturday Evening Post Treasury
Selected Poetry and Prose of Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Stories and Poems
Selected Tales
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Selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
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Six Creepy Stories
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Tales: Horror and Death
Tales: Mystery and Occultism/Horror and Death
Tales: Volume II
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Imagination
Tales of Mystery and Horror: Vol. I
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Tales of Mystery and Terror
Tales of Suspense
Tales of Terror
Tales of Terror and Fantasy
Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Ten Great Mysteries
Terrors, Terrors, Terrors
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Twelve Creepy Tales
Unbegreifliche Ereignisse und geheimnißvolle Thaten
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World Literature

Publisher
Spoken Arts
Language
English
Pages
31

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fiction horror fiction cats Children's fiction short story first-person narrative unreliable narrators self-hatred gallows American fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, horror Fiction, thrillers, general Miniature books Specimens

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Cover of: Le Chat noir
Le Chat noir
2009-09-21, Audiocite
Digital Audio in French
Cover of: 黒猫
黒猫
1999-02-04
in Japanese
Cover of: The Black Cat
The Black Cat
1995, Worthington Press, Worthington Pr
Paperback in English - printing (3)
Cover of: The black cat
The black cat
Publish date unknown, Spoken Arts
sound recording / in English

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Published in
New Rochelle, N.Y
Series
Spoken Arts horror classics

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Format
[sound recording] /
Pagination
1 sound disc (31 min.)
Number of pages
31

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26902215M
OCLC/WorldCat
3760837

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Work ID
OL41068W

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