The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Tom O'Bedlam) @SpokenVerse

Uploaded September 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

This is Edgar Allan Poe's most famous horror story. There is speculation about how he knew so well the feelings of the protagonist - was he subject to similar impulses?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_(short_story)

It was read with my new Plantronics SAVI 440 clip-on headset. I was mainly trying it out, but it seems to work well enough. Usually I use this kind of microphone with voice recognition software, for writing of stories and articles.

There's some analysis here:
projectgutenbergproject.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/short-story-review-black-cat-by-edgar.html

The cover picture came from here:
bibliospheres.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/black-cat-alternate-book-cover.html

The picture of the cellar is actually from Poe's house in Philadelphia.

The cat on the woman's head is a famous Illustration for "The Black Cat" by Aubrey Beardsley (1894--1895)

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