"The Black Cat," written by Edgar Allan Poe, is a unique story about a man and his relationship with a cat. ... In the program where Peter Lorre was reading and acting out the story of the Black Cat that was once wrote many years ago by writer Edgar Allen Poe. ... Another reason why Peter Lorre performed The Black Cat story extremely well was because even though it was not a visual show, it was very easy for the listener to envision what was going on by the constant sound affects that were going on. ... One example would be around 6:30 when Edgar Allan Poe first attacks Pluto, the original bla...

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The narrator of the story, "The Black Cat," would not gouge out the cat's eye and then hang it from a tree as well as he would not kill his wife if he were sane. ... For instance, in the short story, "The Black Cat," addiction to alcohol is portrayed in the relation with insanity of the narrator: "Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character - through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance - had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. [] But my disease grew upon me - ...

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