‘The Black Cat’ by Edgar Allan Poe: Short Story Analysis ‘The Black Cat’ is a Gothic paranormal story of the macabre penned as part of the literature that falls into the category of Dark Romanticism and is written by American writer extraordinaire Edgar Allan Poe. Poe lived in the early part of the nineteenth century and wrote this short story in 1843. Poe is considered … [Read more...] about ‘The Black Cat’ by Edgar Allan Poe: Short Story Analysis