story-detail-imagen-3

Key Vocabulary

Docility
Docilidad
Unburthen
Desahogar
Intoxicate
Intoxicar
Maltreat
Maltratar
Vengeance
Venganza

The Black Cat; Part I

Edgar Allan Poe's acclaimed short story. Where a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable... until he reveals himself.

icon leven
Advanced
Read and listen to this story in Beelinguapp!

The Black Cat; Part I

Edgar Allan Poe's acclaimed short story. Where a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable... until he reveals himself.

Advanced
Read and listen to this story in Beelinguapp!

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, mad am I not, and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified, have tortured and have finally destroyed me. Yet I will not attempt to expound them. To me, they have presented little but horror , to many they will seem less terrible than barroques.
Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place; some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.

Read and listen in any language

Popular Mystery Stories

The Missing Boy; part I
The Trial for Murder; Part I
The Black Cat; Part II
The Black Cat; Part I

Latest Mystery Stories

A Better Man
Hercule Poirot: The Affair at the Victory Ball (Excerpt)
The Missing Boy; Part II
The Missing Boy; part I

Tags:
The Black Cat; Part I in English The Black Cat; Part I in Spanish The Black Cat; Part I in German The Black Cat; Part I in Swedish The Black Cat; Part I in Italian The Black Cat; Part I in Japanese The Black Cat; Part I in Korean The Black Cat; Part I in Portuguese The Black Cat; Part I in French The Black Cat; Part I in Turkish The Black Cat; Part I in Hindi