Yet in “The Black Cat” Poe seems to exploit the anguished and confessional narrative of the earlier tale to the same ends that a frontiersman confides in a greenhorn, and he accordingly slips past us some outrageous absurdities. Like “The Tell Tale Heart,” which was published in the January of the same year, “The Black Cat” presents the final statement of an apprehended murderer. “The Black Cat” has traditionally been identified as a tale of horror – and perhaps, in a more superstitious and candlelit age, it frightened many of its original readers – but modern studies of the tale often appear oblivious to its humour.
…Poe’s short story “The Black Cat” first appeared in Philadelphia’s United States Saturday Post in August 1843.
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