The Black Cat

05/28/23 • 32 min

(CAUTION: story contains animal abuse)
A story of spiritual torment and the individual possibility for good or evil, The Black Cat is quite a strange tale of the human ability to comment on our own behavior.
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Tynan Portillo presents...featuring the best horror stories of the 19th century...welcome to The Poe Show podcast. Narrated by Tynan Portillo.

Today’s episode, The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am 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 am I not -- and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I