1. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality” Nuria Madrid Solano Humanidades, Investigación.

2.  He was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic.  He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809.  Edgar Allan Poe's first love was poetry.  He is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.  The actual cause of death remains a mystery and speculation has included : Delirium tremens, heart disease, epilepsy, syphilis, meningeal inflammation, cholera, and rabies. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

3.  Poe is now considered the father of the modern detective story.  In 1833, the Baltimore Saturday Visiter published some of his poems and he won a contest in it for his story “MS found in a Bottle”  In 1835 he became editor and contributor of the Southern Literary Messenger.  "The Black Cat" it was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post  Other publications which he contributed to were Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, Graham’s Magazine, Evening Mirror, and Godey’s Lady’s Book.

4. A young couple leads a quiet home life with his cat. Alcohol returns to the violent husband and ofhis moments of anger and of his moments of anger leaves one-eyed cat. Later there is an end to the life Later there is an end to the life of the animal. After this is declared a fire, which leaves a sinister brand of a cat hanging on the wall that remains standing. A second cat appears onstage, A second cat appears onstage, equal to the first except one thing: the hair surrounding white crew neck.

5. FILM Roger Corman: House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia. Frank Capra: "The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays" 1957 TELEVISION CSI: Crime Scene Investigation The Simpsons Futurama Beetlejuice Sabrina The Teenage Witch The Sopranos

6. http://classiclit.about.com/od/blackcatedgarallanpoe/ a/blackcat_eapoe.htm http://www.online-literature.com/poe/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_(short_s tory)

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