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The Black Cat (Reading Script Only) Kindle Edition

by Edgar Allan Poe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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This is in radio script format. It is an adaptation of the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Allan, living with his wife and Pluto, his black cat, has been having problems. He reads about microwaves jumping off power transformers. He thinks this might be causing the problems. His problems become more intense. One night Allan returns home drunk and gouges his pet cat's eye out with a knife. A few weeks later, apparently because he feels guilty when he looks at the one-eyed cat, Allan takes the cat into the back yard and hangs him. That night his house burns down. Later, when Allan looks at the ruins, he discovers what he thinks is the shape of a cat hanging from a noose outlined on the one standing wall, that above his bed.
Allan and his wife move to a new house. Allan continues to drink, and, one night, in the local bar, he finds and adopts another black cat exactly like Pluto. Several weeks later, when Allan, axe in hand, goes down to the cellar to break up some kindling for the winter, his new cat runs under his feet and nearly causes him to fall. He raises the axe, intending to hurl it at the cat, but his wife grabs his arm, and he kills her instead.
He thinks of ways of disposing of the body and eventually decides to tear down a brick wall in the cellar and seal her body up behind it. He does this and is very proud of his work. A policeman questions Allan about his wife's disappearance, but the officer's questions are too easily answered; he doesn't even search the house. Allan feels he needs more of a challenge. A few days later, two more policemen search the house thoroughly. They search the cellar last, and, as they are about to leave, Allan proudly slaps on the very wall behind which he has buried his wife's body. The officers hear something that sounds like a baby crying from behind the wall. They get crowbars and break down the wall to find Allan's wife's body with the one-eyed black cat sitting on her head.

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January 5, 2012
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006U6BFNE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Balance Publishing Company (January 5, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 5, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 105 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 32 pages

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Edgar Allan Poe
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Author, poet, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe is credited with pioneering the short story genre, inventing detective fiction, and contributing to the development of science fiction. However, Poe is best known for his works of the macabre, including such infamous titles as The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Lenore, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe was one of the first writers to make his living exclusively through his writing, working for literary journals and becoming known as a literary critic. His works have been widely adapted in film. Edgar Allan Poe died of a mysterious illness in 1849 at the age of 40.
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Esperamos que estas obras sean del agrado del lector, que sepa quienes ha adquirido estas obras, que existe un equipo de trabajo muy grande detrás de esta libro, formato, edición, y demás elementos necesarios para que puedan ser adquiridos por usted en este formato tan accesible a los tiempos actuales.
Por este motivo, y dado el equipo tan grande de trabajo que respalda estas colecciones que facilitamos al lector, tenga la consideración de remitirnos todas las observaciones, comentarios y criticas directamente a nuestro correo electrónico que aquí se lo facilitamos, con el fin de subsanar toda situación que podamos ayudarlo, y sepa también que las reseñas y puntuaciones negativas afectan nuestra reputación y fuente de trabajo, motivo por el que nos tomamos muy seriamente este trabajo.
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Moon

One of my favorite authors

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2023

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I have read and re-read all of his books. You can't go wrong with these. Never a bad story. Always a great ending.

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2023

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This edition is filled with several interesting facts I was not aware of, plus, the edition is beautiful. Would 100% recommend.

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MDLION

Makes me think of Romans 7:21

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2017

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Short engaging horror story.

Can be read in one sitting, in about a half-an-hour.

Favorite quotes include:

"But my disease grew upon me - for what disease is like Alcohol!" (7)

"But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul." (2)

"The guilt of my dark deed disturbed me but little. ... I determined to wall it up ... I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!" (27, 24)

"Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? This spirit of perverseness ... Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?" (10)

This last passage, and indeed the theme of the story, makes me think of some famous Scriptures:

"I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. ... What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!" -Romans 7:21,24,25 (New International Version)

Despite being a tortured soul, as another reviewer points out, Poe is said to have found comfort towards the end of his life by a more forceful embrace of Catholicism.

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THE BLACK CAT

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I loved this book ! It was by Booksurge.com and well-printed and easy to read. But I was especially impressed by the service of Amazon. I received the book in two days and was advised all along the way: when it was shipped, the tracking of it, and e mails advising me of all details. Excellent, Amazon! I am a dedicated customer.

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Jake Conner

Jawdropping

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2013

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This book is great. You want Gore? This is for you. The suspense keeps you on your toes until the very end. Then it all comes together. Very very clever. This book could have taken the cheesy way out like I thought it would, but it doesn't. Highly recommended book.

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Poe would have been disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020

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Poe should be read with more expression than this reader put into it. I couldn't finish this. I found a reading of this story done by Christopher Lee on you tube which I found much better.

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Jose A. Campos

Classic

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2013

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"The Black Cat" is an Edgar Allan Poe classic that belongs in everybody's collection. Its disturbing but very entertaining and its one of those books that its hard to put down. Because its a short story, its easy to complete in one sit down. Must Have!.

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Miss Tootie

Just what son-in-law wanted.

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2013

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Son-in-law asked for this "book" for Christmas. It was more like a "pamphlet" ... very thin and cover very thin. I would have liked the cover/binding to be thicker and sturdier, but it was exactly what my son-in-law wanted, so I am happy with it.

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Remorse

Reviewed in Brazil on October 30, 2023

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Short story but with huge charge of emotions. Specially for those who turned impatient, bored and abused on manhood due to the alcoholism. I felt the remorse described and I was wordering that at least I am not part of 1800.