The story is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart". The police soon come and, after the narrator's tapping on the wall is met with a shrieking sound, they find not only the wife's corpse but also the black cat that had been accidentally walled in with the body and alerted them with its cry. He conceals the body behind a brick wall in his basement. He attempts to kill the cat with an axe but his wife stops him instead, the narrator murders his wife. He soon finds another black cat, similar to the first except for a white mark on its chest, but he soon develops a hatred for it as well. The home burns down but one remaining wall shows a burned outline of a cat hanging from a noose. His favorite, a pet black cat, bites him one night and the narrator punishes it by cutting its eye out and then hanging it from a tree. In the story, an unnamed narrator has a strong affection for pets until he perversely turns to abusing them. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. " The Black Cat" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.Early 20th-century illustration by Byam Shaw First published 07 January 2014 1445 The Black Cat 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic.
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