The Black Cat is a short story of the horror genre that is part of the "Stories of Nightmare and Terror" written and published in 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). The American writer Edgar al Poe is considered the father of the detective story, of the reading of horror and of psychological yellow. In this story the author manages to give us a clear and convincing description of the human tendency to do harm, without any apparent reason. The story focuses on the confession of a murderer who, pending his death sentence, decides to tell his version of events, even though he knows that he will not be believed. Once upon a time, before becoming a monster, man was an honest and animal-loving person; Among the many animals owned by man, there was a black cat named Pluto that became his favorite. Over time, man became increasingly violent, both towards his wife and towards animals, especially he would hurl himself at poor Pluto. In an access of rage, the man will blink the eye of the black cat and hang it on the tree of the garden. That same night, he managed to save himself from a fire that destroyed the house, leaving a single wall with a giant figure of a cat with a rope around his neck.
His obsession with the black cat will become stronger and stronger, so much so that months after the killing of Pluto, he will welcome a new black cat, similar to the previous one. The cohabitation with the new black cat, will last little, in fact, in one of his attacks of rage will try to kill him but will kill his wife who was defending the black cat. After realizing what he had done, he decided to wall the corpse in a wall. Everything was going well, and the man felt so safe that he did not object to a search by the police investigating his wife's disappearance. So sure of himself that he hit the wall where his wife's corpse was hidden with a stick. From behind the wall, there was an atrocious lament that was heard by the authorities who decided to tear down that wall. Cops found the woman's body and the black cat mewing.
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