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"The Black Cat" is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post . In the story, an unnamed narrator has a strong affection for pets until he perversely turns to abusing them.
Three short sequences, based on the following Poe tales, are told: "Morella", "The Black Cat" (which is combined with another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado"), and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". Each sequence is introduced via voiceover narration by Vincent Price, who also appears in all three narratives.
The film has two other segments named after "The Black Cat" and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". The story was loosely adapted as The Haunting of Morella (1990), directed by Jim Wynorski. Along with many other Poe stories, "Morella" was adapted into the Netflix miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher. In this version, Morella becomes ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 205– 224. ISBN 978-0-521-79727-6. Pérez Arranz, Cristina (2018). Edgar Allan Poe desde la imaginación científica (PhD). Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Poe, Edgar Allan (1927), Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: Walter J. Black
Although Edgar Allan Poe is given a "suggested by" credit, the film has little to do with his 1843 short story "The Black Cat". Instead, director Edgar G. Ulmer and writer Peter Ruric (better known as pulp writer "Paul Cain") came up with the story, which exploits what was a sudden public interest in psychiatry, [6] and Ruric wrote the ...
Two Evil Eyes (Italian: Due occhi diabolici) is a 1990 anthology horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and Dario Argento.An international co-production of Italy and the United States, Two Evil Eyes is split into two separate tales, both based largely on the works of Edgar Allan Poe: "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", directed by Romero and starring Adrienne Barbeau; and ...
I remember this moment like it was yesterday: My sister, 6 years old at the time, refused to get out of the car. It was a gorgeous blue-skied day at Cooper’s Beach in Southampton, and my parents ...