In Roman Mythology, Pluto is the god of the underworld (and, of course, Mickey’s dog according to Disney). His favorite animal is a cat whose name isn’t incidental: Pluto. He marries a sensitive, loving wife and they have many pets. The narrator grew up as a sensitive, animal loving individual. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.” Poe knows how to write an introduction. He proclaims: “For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Not only doesn’t he expect your sympathy he doesn’t expect you to believe his story. He is honest about his previous callousness. Our narrator sits in a prison cell, but he does not expect your sympathy. Also unlike narrators in other stories, he’s not sitting around a fireside, and so many horror stories (“The Monkey’s Paw,” “The Bodysnatchers,” “The Turn of the Screw,” to name a few) start by the fireside. But unlike narrators in other stories, this narrator is damned by the events of the tale, and perhaps seeks solace in his retelling. He starts where many horror writers start: at the end of the story, with a narrator recounting a tale of terror and travesty. Not surprisingly, Poe mentions madness early in the story “The Black Cat.” It’s kind of his shtick. Imperial Talker on “Take a sad song, and make it… Skinamarink: There’s No Place Like Home (The Spoiler-Filled Account of a Horror Phenomenon).Xena the Warrior Princess: Fiction’s Fearless Females.Red’s Retaliation: The Untethering of a Subterranean Revolutionary – Fiction’s Fearless Females.Fiction’s Fearless Females: Dana Scully.“Take a sad song, and make it better:” My totally sporadic, barely thought-out, unapologetically random top ten Beatles songs list.

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