The Black Cat

Season 2 Episode 136

This episode has the ghost of Mr. Poe reading the complete version of the story, The Black Cat - setting the story up for a comparison of guilt and madness with The Tale Heart (in the following episode.) This episode with some observations by David Grantz regarding individual will in such stories as The Black Cat.

What is the Black Dog Syndrome?
What was the physical difference between the first and second black cats owned by the narrator?
Why is narrator considered unreliable?
How did the narrator kill his wife?
Where was the second black cat when the police arrived?

00:00 Intro
02:12 Black cats in history and society
03:30 Background for The Black Cat
05:02 The Black Cat (story)
10:26 The spirit of perverseness
25:00 “The darkest and most evil of thoughts”
27:40 Walling up the victim
31:05 The police arrive
35:14 Summary
36:18 Future episode
37:00 Sources
37:44 Outro

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The Black Cat