The Black Cat's Revenge

An illustration depicting the climatic ending of Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Black Cat", arguably his darkest tale. The narrator has murdered his wife and walled her body up behind the bricks in his wine cellar. He had intended also to kill the pet cat, who's eye he had previously gouged out in a drunken rage, but it had gone missing.

Much later during the police investigation, completely confident in his own safety, the narrator comments on the sturdiness of the building and raps upon the wall he had built around the body. A wailing sound fills the room. The alarmed police tear down the wall and find the wife's badly decaying corpse. Perched on her head, to the horror of the narrator, is the screeching black cat. As he words it, "I had walled the monster up within the tomb!"

Created with a companion piece, "Quoth the Raven" Seen here:



Original is available for purchase, $195 framed. Acrylic on Illustration board.

Open edition prints available via my etsy store:
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8x12 print, $10
4x6 print, $4
2.5x3.5 trading card, $1
Other sizes available upon request.
I will also accept the equivalent value in DA points as payment.


Here is the original sketch: