Edgar Allan Poe is known as the "Father of psychological horror". The document discusses Poe's short story "The Black Cat" and how it uses literary devices like allusion, foreshadowing, pacing, and an unreliable narrator to create suspense and psychological horror. It provides examples of foreshadowing, how the pacing increases tension, and quotes showing a narrator who cannot be trusted that are found in Poe's story.

1. Edgar Allan Poe
And the psychology of fear

2. What are some
of your fears?

3. Fears vs. Phobias
• Fear: a distressing emotion aroused by
impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether
the threat is real or imagined
• Phobia: a persistent, irrational fear of a
specific object, activity, or situation that leads
to a compelling desire to avoid it.

4. Types of Horror Movies
• Slasher/Gory
• Supernatural
• Monster
• Realistic
• Psychological

5. 6 Basic Fears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VWxQs5X1hw
Do the fears on your list match or relate to the
six basic fears? Star the ones that do.

6. Edgar Allan Poe
“The Father of psychological horror”

7. The Black Cat

8. Literary Devices: Allusion
• A brief, usually indirect reference to a person,
place, or event--real or fictional.
• According to their content, allusions may be
historical, cultural, mythological, literary,
political, or private.

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10. Allusion Sentence Starters
• Poe chooses the name Pluto for the cat
because…
• Poe mentions superstitions about the black
cat because…
• These allusions help me understand the story
better because…

11. Suspense
• A feeling or state of nervousness or
excitement caused by wondering what will
happen.
• Suspense VIne

12. • Foreshadowing: The author gives the reader a
hint of something that is going to happen
without revealing the story.
• Pacing: The rate at which the reader reads, the
speed at which the events occur and unfold.
• Unreliable Narrator: A narrator who can't be
trusted. Either from ignorance or self-interest,
this narrator speaks with a bias, makes mistakes,
or even lies.

13. Foreshadowing: Examples
• “Yet mad I am not- and very surely do I not
dream. But tomorrow I die and today I unburden
my soul.”
• “I suffered myself to use intemperate language
to my wife. At length I even offered her personal
violence.”
• “If I arose to walk it [the cat] would get between
my feet and thus nearly throw me down.”

14. Pacing: Examples
• “I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable,
more regardless of the feelings of others.”
• “I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise
violently ill use it; but gradually - very gradually - I
came to look upon it with unutterable loathing.”
• “The second and the third day passed, and still my
tormentor came not.”

15. Unreliable Narrator: Examples
• “Mad indeed would I be to expect, in a case
where my very senses reject their own evidence.”
• “Beneath the pressure of torments such as these,
the feeble remnant of the good within me
succumbed. Evil thoughts became my sole
intimates - the darkest and most evil of
thoughts.”
• “Of my own thoughts it is folly to speak.”