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The Black Cat (original title: The Black Cat) is a fantasy short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published on the front page of the August 19, 1843 edition of the weekly The Saturday Evening Post, in Philadelphia.

Summary
The main character of the story is a man who has been “crazy” about animals since childhood. He has a black cat named Pluto, to whom he is particularly attached. However, the narrator becomes alcoholic and violent with his animals and his wife, but he still has too much consideration for Pluto to beat him. One night, when he comes home drunk, he grabs his cat and takes out its eye with his knife. From that moment on, the cat began to run away from him in terror. Another morning, the narrator grabs the cat and hangs it from the branch of a tree where he leaves it to die.

During the night, the house mysteriously catches fire, forcing the narrator to flee with his wife and the servant. The next day, the narrator returns to visit the ruins of his house, where he discovers, on the only wall that escaped the fire, the shape of a gigantic cat, tied around the neck to a rope. This image terrifies him at first, but then reason prevails... (Audiobook)