The Black CatBy Edgar Allen Poe, 1843
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, madam I not --and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul. Myimmediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series ofmere household events. In their consequences, th...