{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d3f","title":"The Black Cat","publish_year":1843,"publish_source":"The Saturday Post","publish_edition":"Vol 23, Issue 1151","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1843-08-19_23_1151/mode/2up","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","code":"the-black-cat","words":3998,"image":"cat.jpg","image_alt":"A cat's eyes in the darkness. Graphite filter.","genres":["horror","gothic"],"blurb":"In speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.","description":"A man suspects his wife’s adopted, black cat to be the source of all his almost paranormal bad luck.","rating":4,"unique_cover":"A black cat with one eye hissing from inside a broken brick wall.","cover_source":"Byam Shaw","cover_link":"https://archive.org/details/selectedtalesofm00poeeiala/page/302/mode/2up","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"choice","title":"Librarian’s Picks","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"horror","title":"Best of Horror","collection_type":"genre"}]}