That night, his house mysteriously catches fire, and imprinted on the wall in ash is the image of the cat hung from the tree. Frustrated and angry, the man takes Pluto and hangs him from a tree in the garden. In a panic, Pluto bites the man, who in turn gouges out one of his eyes with a knife.įrom then on, the cat flees in terror at the sight of his master. Coming home one night, he believes Pluto is avoiding him, so he snatches him up. The man and his wife live happily and take good care of their animals, until one day the man suddenly turns to the bottle, eventually becoming a violent alcoholic. He and his wife used to keep many pets, but his favorite of them all was a friendly black cat named Pluto. The man says he used to be a fond lover of animals. He explains he doesn't expect us to believe anything we're about to hear from him. We open the story with our narrator days away from being hanged for the brutal murder of his wife. "The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's more famous short stories, first published in the August 1843 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
" Yet mad I am not.and very surely I do not dream."
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