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== Publication history == [[File:PoeBlackCat1843.jpg|thumb|First appearance in the ''United States Saturday Post'', August 19, 1843, front page, Philadelphia]] "The Black Cat" was first published in the August 19, 1843, issue of ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]''. At the time, the publication was using the temporary title ''United States Saturday Post''.<ref>{{cite book |first=Arthur Hobson |last=Quinn |title=Edgar Allan Poe: a critical biography |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |location=[[Baltimore]] |year=1998 |page=394 |isbn=978-0-8018-5730-0 |oclc=37300554}}</ref> The story was reprinted in ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' and ''The Pensacola Gazette'' that same year.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.eapoe.org/works/info/pt044.htm#workssw| title = Edgar Allan Poe β "The Black Cat". The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore|website=Eapoe.org|access-date=2020-11-23}}</ref> Readers immediately responded favorably to the story, spawning parodies including [[Thomas Dunn English]]'s "The Ghost of the Grey Tadpole".<ref name=Sova28>{{cite book |first=Dawn B. |last=Sova |title=Edgar Allan Poe, A to Z: the essential reference to his life and work |url=https://archive.org/details/edgarallanpoetoz0000sova |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Facts on File]] |location=New York City |year=2001 |page=[https://archive.org/details/edgarallanpoetoz0000sova/page/28 28] |isbn=978-0-8160-4161-9 |oclc=44885229}}</ref>
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