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The Black Cat and other stories. Edgar Poe was born in Boston in the USA. When he was two years old, his mother died. His father died or left the family. So young Edgar Poe went to live with a family called Allan in Richmond. At this time, he added their surname to his.
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Edgar Poe was born in Boston in the USA. When he was two years old, his mother died. His father died or left the family. So young Edgar Poe went to live with a family called Allan in Richmond. At this time, he added their surname to his. When he was twenty-six, he married his young cousin Virginia. But their married life together was difficult. Poe worked hard but he did not earn much money. He was a nervous man and he drank too much all his life. When his wife died after a long illness, Poe began to drink more than before. Poe was forty years old when he suddenly disappeared. He was later found lying in a street. He was taken to hospital where he died on 7 October 1849. Since his death Poe has become one of the most famous American writers.
His terrible stories touch our deepest fear and are difficult to forget.The book “ The Black Cat and other stories” includes some of his famous horror stories.They are “The Black Cat», «The Oval Portrait”, ”Berenice”, and “The Mask of The Red Death”. I would like to tell you something about each story.
THE BLACK CAT. Why is the man in the story afraid of his own black cat? Why does he kill it? And how does the cat punished him for his evil ways?
THE OVAL PORTRAIT. In «the Oval Portrait» a man finds portrait of a beautiful young woman in a lonely house. Who is this woman? Who painted her? What terrible secret does it hold? THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH. In this story a terrible illness is killing people in the city. Prince Prospero takes a thousand friends away from the city and tries to shut his door against the face of Death. How does the «Red Death» get into his large house? What will happen to him and all his friends when they meet the stranger with the red mask of Death?
BERENICE. But my favourite story is «Berenice». I don’t understand why, but I liked a horror of monomania. It is very interesting illness. A madman offers to marry his sick cousin. He does not love her but she loves him. One day after she smiles at him, he cannot stop thinking about her beautiful teeth. What really happens to Berenice in the end?
If you are interested in such kind of books, you can read four horror stories from the strange and terrible mind of Edgar Allan Poe. They are stories about beauty, evil and death. Will you stop sleeping at night? I don’t know…
