story: The Black Cat
author: Edgar Allen Poe
year: 1843
where: mio ufficio
note: Someone left this fine story at the printer! Snatched! Also, this story was first printed in Philadelphia, my home city. A good story for a Halloween mood.
a line: “My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.”
samantha Neugebauer 