Project Gutenberg on Nostr: "For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither ...

"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief."

#OTD in 1843.

Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story "The Black Cat" is first published in The Saturday Evening Post.

At the time, the publication was using the temporary title United States Saturday Post. The story was reprinted in The Baltimore Sun and The Pensacola Gazette that same year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_(short_story)

The Black Cat at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148

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