Edgar Allan Poe - The Black Cat with subtitles (Read by Christopher Lee)

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  • This is Edgar Allan Poe´s Tale "The Black Cat" with subtitles. It has been edited in order to make it fit in with sir Christopher Lee´s narration.

Komentáře • 205

  • @dextro_whatever
    @dextro_whatever Před 10 měsíci +59

    Thanks Mr. Lee for helping me pass my Poe class from beyond the grave.

  • @karinarivera-lopez8783
    @karinarivera-lopez8783 Před 6 lety +172

    yo... not gonna lie. Poe writing is insane... but you gotta love it!

  • @hudibrad
    @hudibrad Před 7 lety +237

    Him wishing us a good night at the end was so ironical.

  • @Koke-Girl
    @Koke-Girl Před 4 lety +105

    I have a black cat and I love her so much 😍 she’s sleeping next to me right now so cute. I hate when people abuse animals that man got what he deserves.

  • @lil_bit_dramatic
    @lil_bit_dramatic Před 4 lety +18

    I like how we can get Christopher Lee to just read us bedtime stories that's awesome

  • @ingemaleja
    @ingemaleja Před 7 lety +225

    Allan Poe was a very dark writer, that story scare me as hell.

    • @kaworureal1736
      @kaworureal1736 Před 6 lety +12

      ingemaleja Lol, I got into Poe as a first grader, I started with The Raven, and then read The Tell Tale Heart and then I decided to read this. I was traumatized.

    • @rubygallardo2348
      @rubygallardo2348 Před 5 lety +4

      Fr my teacher made us read this:/

    • @jimhuffman9434
      @jimhuffman9434 Před 5 lety +1

      @@kaworureal1736 you were in first grade?...What the hell were you thinking?

    • @kaworureal1736
      @kaworureal1736 Před 5 lety +3

      @@jimhuffman9434 I don't even know. Lol

    • @einsteinsanchezbardales5038
      @einsteinsanchezbardales5038 Před 5 lety +1

      The master

  • @annienelson9246
    @annienelson9246 Před 7 lety +126

    I love horror and I was assigned to read this for a class, thanks so much for this exciting listen.

  • @_Phara0h_404
    @_Phara0h_404 Před 9 měsíci +8

    Anyone else falling asleep to Edgar Allen Poe’s stories? I have a copy of almost all his works and I read them as Sir Christopher Lee reads with me. Makes me sleepy

  • @PaulKyriazi
    @PaulKyriazi Před 5 lety +57

    Great to have Chris Lee reading with the words as well. I just recommended this to a 2nd language english writer as a good example of a short story in the first person. Thanks for posting.

  • @thegoblin2684
    @thegoblin2684 Před 2 lety +48

    Edgar Allan Poe was truly a literary genius .

    • @jbwood3341
      @jbwood3341 Před rokem +3

      Indeed he was,but also an unfortunate soul who lived a difficult and troubled life of addiction and psychological issues...

    • @FuttBucker42069
      @FuttBucker42069 Před rokem

      Why's that? I just accepted it when my teachers said that, but I never asked them why?

  • @millennial8441
    @millennial8441 Před 4 lety +11

    Sir Christopher Lee has a very strong posh accent. Like it.

  • @empressredbird
    @empressredbird Před 2 lety +38

    I remember accidentally coming across this story in a game, when I was just a little kid

  • @jescervoni4538
    @jescervoni4538 Před 5 lety +14

    I think “feeling insane” is a lot more relatable now. Unbelievable things for you may not have happened to others, but the difference between real and what happens is blurred. It is real when it happens to you, but some how doesn’t exist if others haven’t felt it. How are we supposed to gage experiences when comparing it to others, when all we have for reality is our own experience?

    • @NateB
      @NateB Před rokem +1

      This is a frontier of the science of consciousness.

    • @DostoyevskyTolstoy
      @DostoyevskyTolstoy Před 4 měsíci

      I would insist that the 'black cat' seen at the end of his tale was a real hallucination (born of his guilty conscience) that his wife also witnessed, at his insistence.
      Two gentle reminders: don't drink to excess, and don't mistreat your animals.

  • @1x_rj_x1
    @1x_rj_x1 Před 2 lety +33

    Dark, yet beautiful.

  • @variangst6167
    @variangst6167 Před 3 lety +22

    Imagine getting exposed by your own cat.

    • @rachael1366
      @rachael1366 Před 9 měsíci +4

      This is such a gen-z response and I’m LIVING

    • @DostoyevskyTolstoy
      @DostoyevskyTolstoy Před 4 měsíci +1

      You guys give some of the best succinct literary analysis I've ever seen, "no cap."

    • @basedcheese1
      @basedcheese1 Před 3 měsíci

      ratted out by the cat

  • @names_xaria5145
    @names_xaria5145 Před 4 lety +99

    What if all these stories were actually his journal or diary entries instead of fictional books

    • @entity6609
      @entity6609 Před 4 lety +10

      That'd be wild if they were journal entries lol

  • @sprisyatasedai640
    @sprisyatasedai640 Před 4 lety +5

    This was my one of the best stories by him 😍

  • @aaronburr4558
    @aaronburr4558 Před 4 lety +9

    On paper it isn’t that creepy but when read and added sounds god damn it’s scary. When you make a horror story more realistic it makes it more imaginable and only then it gets to the extent that it makes you look behind yourself every 6 seconds

  • @remysebbane5557
    @remysebbane5557 Před 5 lety +19

    ``Your swords please, gentlemen. Let's not make a mess of things in front of the Chancellor``

  • @ivorythebashful
    @ivorythebashful Před 5 lety +4

    This story scared and depressed me but I am glad I listened to it! Thanks for uploading this! Also used this story in a final English project!

  • @bogusbrains7813
    @bogusbrains7813 Před 4 lety +2

    Love this story, even better for the narrator. Perfect choice for the tale!

  • @_.shapeshifter._
    @_.shapeshifter._ Před 4 lety +25

    FYI: This might contain spoilers!
    I hated the beginning, but I have ALWAYS LOVED Poe! But, I heard this story many years ago and remembered it barely. I had a black cat when I was 1-10 years old. I had to leave him when I moved away because he was half an outdoor cat half indoor. And he hated planes and would have had a heart attack and died because he was 9 (which is like 60-70 for an outdoor cat) Hearing this story I thought back and remembered him... His name was Bagheera, like in the Jungle Book. He wasn't the nicest cat because he had been left at 2 weeks old by his mother. His mother, like him, was feral and was not spayed so she had so many children. My older sister found Bagheera wandering around and picked him up. We kept him (I was like a year old so I obv don't remember) because it was OBVIOUS he DID NOT belong to anyone! Fast forward and we're leaving.. he stayed with close family friends for about a year until he got sick and died. We think it might have been stressed for us leaving. But he was also old for an outdoor cat. My family didn't tell me until I was about 11 and a half. I begged them to tell me because I KNEW something was wrong. I hated my family for a long time after that... I still think back to him and it's been many years since his death. I miss him so much and hearing the fact that this guy cut his cat's EYE out because he was DRUNK and UPSET for NO REASON makes me so angry! Am I the only one!? Poe is a great writer, but everyone is ignoring that his cat had its eye cut out and then it was HUNG. HUNG! How AWFUL!!! I started to cry at the thought... Please, PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one who thought this was wrong to the cat. Then the guy went insane because he killed his friend, Pluto. So Pluto haunted him but like not really. Then he killed his wife, and was HAPPY because it got the cat (other one) to go away! Geez! I miss Bagheera and this beginning of the story brought back the look in his eyes when I turned and walked out. I was so much younger but I remember it so well. Dear stranger who reads this, if you got this far... thanks. Leave a like? I'm sharing a story no one cares about but it would mean a lot to me... Thanks if you ever find this. Anyone else feel bad for the cat? Has anyone else have the same kind of experience with a pet? Let me know and enjoy your day, I'm gonna go find some tissues :,)

    • @wittyblonde6728
      @wittyblonde6728 Před 4 lety +1

      Marina TheWolf I did feel bad for the car as well. Especially since I LOVE black cats the most and I think they are really sweet.

    • @ladybookworms
      @ladybookworms Před 4 lety

      Thank you for ruining the whole story. Atleast mention at the begining that your rant has spoilers!

    • @_.shapeshifter._
      @_.shapeshifter._ Před 4 lety +2

      @@ladybookworms Thanks! I really like people who support me! :3 ...Also, not my fault you looked at the comments... sorry?

  • @elricdrick6821
    @elricdrick6821 Před 6 lety +15

    I can't sleep now,thanks.

  • @segganew
    @segganew Před rokem +21

    Count Dooku reading this is perfect.

  • @sergiogarcia4062
    @sergiogarcia4062 Před 9 měsíci +3

    The best short story ever😍

  • @TheSymphisis
    @TheSymphisis Před 8 lety +32

    Thanks for the subtitles! :)

    • @damoniquebarber2820
      @damoniquebarber2820 Před 7 lety

      This sounds a little creepy about the knife thing

    • @damoniquebarber2820
      @damoniquebarber2820 Před 7 lety

      ***** oh I didn't know I only had to read it for school.

    • @TheSymphisis
      @TheSymphisis Před 7 lety

      Damonique Barber You should read more of his work. They are truly amazing :)

  • @ToxicLemonsyeah
    @ToxicLemonsyeah Před 5 lety +3

    Not even 5 minutes and I've cried....

  • @msia7201
    @msia7201 Před 17 dny

    When I was nine, I carried a stuffy, a black cat without an eye. I wrapped a little ribbon around it's neck and loved it so hard. His name was Pluto.
    We lost it in a move.
    I have a real black cat now. He's got both eyes and hasn't been hanged. He cuddles with me and looks at me with only love.
    We do grow.

  • @millennial8441
    @millennial8441 Před 5 měsíci

    Gosh, this short story is way creepier than "The Raven" or "Ligeia". I simply love it!

  • @jimhuffman9434
    @jimhuffman9434 Před 5 lety +4

    One of Poe's darkest stories...never read it as a kid

  • @aaliyahbrown6571
    @aaliyahbrown6571 Před 3 lety +1

    This is my favorite poem. I can't stop listening to it. lol

  • @Pxcklee
    @Pxcklee Před 4 lety +4

    Felt bad for the cat 🐈:(

  • @THEHORSELOVER235
    @THEHORSELOVER235 Před 7 lety +14

    I dont get why we can read crazy stories like this for school but we cant talk about GTA, guns, kids cant play with toy guns, cant talk a bout death, ect. We get it from school and they want to blame it on families .Thus world is so fucked up.

    • @uryui2454
      @uryui2454 Před 6 lety +1

      Because edgar allan poe is the father of the horror short stories his stories show a great amount of irony and perfect english his stories show how someones personal life can impact there own writing truly amazing

  • @memyself4431
    @memyself4431 Před 6 lety +7

    Ummmm, yeah I was going to let my mind take a walk on the dark side but ummm this is one interesting creature Edgar Allen Poe! I appreciate poems!

  • @oscarsifuentes4273
    @oscarsifuentes4273 Před rokem +5

    OMG i love E.A.P's writing's

  • @rosea2350
    @rosea2350 Před rokem +12

    Adopt a black cat 🖤

    • @Lazy_Gamer23
      @Lazy_Gamer23 Před 10 měsíci

      Not just one black cat ADOPT THEM ALL (´⊙ω⊙`)

    • @Nick-qc7wm
      @Nick-qc7wm Před 10 měsíci

      My black cat is so irritating 😂😂he only likes me when I give him food

    • @Lazy_Gamer23
      @Lazy_Gamer23 Před 10 měsíci

      @@Nick-qc7wm Well mine won’t stop meowing at you when he wants attention or pets and if you ignore him, he will try to maneuver himself under your hand just so you can pet him.

  • @rachidr5855
    @rachidr5855 Před 6 lety +1

    It was the first novel that I read.Iwill never forget it

  • @j_champ3219
    @j_champ3219 Před 6 lety +7

    Doin it for school project but found something new, I think I like🤔👀🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @hannahgruen6890
    @hannahgruen6890 Před 6 lety +11

    It's actually "Fireside Tales" not "File Site Tales." But you did a great job on this..thank you!

  • @greglong1432
    @greglong1432 Před 4 lety +1

    From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them. This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, and, in my manhood, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure. To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
    This is my favorite paragraph from this short story. Even Poe loved animals.

  • @luriandacitra_9d_223
    @luriandacitra_9d_223 Před rokem +4

    Dark, but beautiful.

  • @kaylenamilhone6221
    @kaylenamilhone6221 Před 6 lety +36

    There's an entire paragraph missing from this.....

  • @jujurales5171
    @jujurales5171 Před 5 lety +1

    Thank u for this, I understand the story better !

  • @names_xaria5145
    @names_xaria5145 Před 4 lety +2

    Ngl all of his stories scare me and books dont usually scare me 😳😳😨

  • @stevenh2535
    @stevenh2535 Před 5 lety +1

    My favorite Poe story.

  • @thayane7532
    @thayane7532 Před 4 lety +2

    Love it !! Um dos meus favoritos ❤️

  • @BuckerydogSchmuckeryDog
    @BuckerydogSchmuckeryDog Před 5 lety +21

    Not scary it's just damn man murdered his cat and wife and got his comeuppance

    • @omikronweapon
      @omikronweapon Před 4 lety +2

      I'd rarely describe Poe as "scary". More like, creepy, suspenseful or just weird.

  • @andrewkazakevich8611
    @andrewkazakevich8611 Před 7 lety +25

    Such a scary story!

    • @jassidhu7106
      @jassidhu7106 Před 6 lety

      Андрей Казакевич if you have readen i have 1 question can you answer

  • @plan8sk8er
    @plan8sk8er Před 6 měsíci

    i went to the house(Philladelphia) he was in when he probably wrote it, the cellar with the same projection as in the story big enough to fit someone inside.

  • @raquelreyes4325
    @raquelreyes4325 Před 4 lety

    One time, I walked into my 9th grade English class thinking déjà vu, i have done this before, I've been here before.

  • @ladybookworms
    @ladybookworms Před 4 lety +2

    Music is too loud.

  • @catherinewilliams4862
    @catherinewilliams4862 Před 6 lety +27

    I have a homework assignment on this and the question is Wher is the narrator as he is telling his story? Please help I hate school

    • @Deadlikenny
      @Deadlikenny Před 6 lety +18

      Ngyjjcf Willkefghujbvf if I was paying enough attention, he's in jail. Or rather, death row, as he's retelling his story the day before his demise

    • @menacexp
      @menacexp Před 5 lety +7

      the Gallows row - he foretold his own demise

  • @majidnba
    @majidnba Před 7 lety +18

    so messed up!

  • @jojo-wr3xn
    @jojo-wr3xn Před měsícem

    we got Count Dooku reading Edgar Allan Poe before GTA VI

  • @Oligoogletookmyname
    @Oligoogletookmyname Před 5 lety +1

    That cat's a hero!

  • @thayane7532
    @thayane7532 Před 5 lety

    Goosebumps!! Very good!!

  • @sungkyuko2606
    @sungkyuko2606 Před 5 lety +5

    this is depression

  • @theoptimistictabby2785
    @theoptimistictabby2785 Před 4 lety +3

    This story is the best! I love both cats and revenge stories, so this is purrfect 4 me!!!
    (lol get it? I was referencing "purr"... which is a noise made by a cat ........................... which this story is about ..................... no? Ok, I'll leave. Peace)

  • @1ivingProof
    @1ivingProof Před 10 měsíci +1

    I really need these videos to stop adding background noise and music.

  • @garciadany6759
    @garciadany6759 Před 5 lety +2

    Use this to sleep, great voice

  • @k0bramaster165
    @k0bramaster165 Před 4 lety +2

    If Count Dooku is telling me this story, I'm staying don't @ me

    • @Just_Joshing024
      @Just_Joshing024 Před 4 lety

      The entire time the teacher played this I couldn't unthink of count Dooku reading me a story.

  • @zverina
    @zverina Před rokem +2

    would love to hear the isolated vocal cut

  • @user-vn3ih9tu1o
    @user-vn3ih9tu1o Před 6 lety +5

    Why am I listening to this at 4:00am??

  • @annpippin6388
    @annpippin6388 Před 3 měsíci

    List of stories by E.A.Poe

  • @cruisetheautisticboy994
    @cruisetheautisticboy994 Před 5 lety +2

    Count dooku is reading this!

  • @pussinboots9983
    @pussinboots9983 Před 4 lety +2

    Ohh Gothic tales! I love it!

  • @SickTwistedQueen
    @SickTwistedQueen Před 10 měsíci +3

    Don't f*ck with cats.

  • @j.c.s3552
    @j.c.s3552 Před 4 lety +7

    who's here just for school ( '-'/)/

  • @bobbytrombley681
    @bobbytrombley681 Před 7 měsíci

    I think tales from the hood should have been on this list since it was about real story’s metaphorically.

  • @theoptimistictabby2785
    @theoptimistictabby2785 Před 4 lety +1

    Also 4:19 Poor kitty!!

  • @OrangeyGaming
    @OrangeyGaming Před 4 lety

    Thanks count duku!!

  • @KittyKalavera
    @KittyKalavera Před 5 lety +1

    Im crying

  • @thayane7532
    @thayane7532 Před 4 lety

    It was a black cat , a black cat, a gigantic cat... Pretty good 👌

  • @MichaelWyattMDW
    @MichaelWyattMDW Před 6 měsíci +1

    File Site Tales? I think that's supposed to be Fire-Side Tales!

  • @tylorchase2029
    @tylorchase2029 Před 5 lety

    I try to write positive and go to heaven.

  • @ramarialive8074
    @ramarialive8074 Před 6 lety +1

    Doing project in school what’s the most important part in the black cat -stay spicy

  • @meksone8708
    @meksone8708 Před 5 lety

    Listening to this at 4:30 am off jibis wibis...

  • @jacobthompson2189
    @jacobthompson2189 Před 3 lety +1

    Why do you make me suffer

  • @cooleslaw
    @cooleslaw Před 4 lety +1

    Nice.

  • @joeanderson8839
    @joeanderson8839 Před 7 měsíci

    The exact same thing happened to me.

  • @sylviadavila4904
    @sylviadavila4904 Před 4 lety

    Well done.

  • @user-pw1xo5nw2p
    @user-pw1xo5nw2p Před 9 měsíci +4

    This is so EVIL. Hopeful it is just a story.

  • @ginny709
    @ginny709 Před 5 lety

    The music in background is irritating! and there is a echo when he is reading.. shame too, wanted to hear this....will find another audio on YT.

  • @ManarManar-jt3ks
    @ManarManar-jt3ks Před 6 lety

    thank u .i subscribed in your chanel coz i like it

  • @lakynmay
    @lakynmay Před 5 lety +4

    thanks for the nightmares 😂 :)

  • @SebastiaanHolStadsgids
    @SebastiaanHolStadsgids Před 7 lety +4

    Saruman rulezzzzz ♥♥♥ ;-)

  • @arandomvillager488
    @arandomvillager488 Před 4 lety +2

    He deserves it the poor thing never did anything wrong but he killed it for what it didn't like him after he cut its eye out

  • @Lazy_Gamer23
    @Lazy_Gamer23 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I- *Shooketh* 😨

  • @barbarapalmer8224
    @barbarapalmer8224 Před rokem +2

    Black cats are the best😅

  • @inesa1076
    @inesa1076 Před 4 lety +1

    This is fun homework tho

  • @aaronburr4558
    @aaronburr4558 Před 4 lety

    Sounds like count Dooku, I heard another version where the narration was super quiet but had super loud cat screaming which just hurt my ears

    • @jakecastillo6731
      @jakecastillo6731 Před 4 lety

      M Gfngndfsh thats bcuz it is

    • @aaronburr4558
      @aaronburr4558 Před 4 lety

      Jake Castillo wtf he is one of the most famous actors of all time! Never knew he did audio books

  • @entr3_nou5
    @entr3_nou5 Před 4 lety

    I don’t think Poe liked the idea of animals following him around unprompted

  • @kylecatavero5609
    @kylecatavero5609 Před 6 lety +8

    Willy Wonka's Dad lmao

  • @frickoffplease6326
    @frickoffplease6326 Před 4 lety +1

    So was his wife alive when he wrote stuff like this?...... like you marry a dude and he tells you oh wow I wrote a story with you in it, my love and it has him like... killing you.

    • @frickoffplease6326
      @frickoffplease6326 Před 4 lety +1

      Or I think she died and he got depressed and then he wrote this stuff? Either way WOW

  • @iancrooks8702
    @iancrooks8702 Před 4 lety

    thanks

  • @duehyperion1186
    @duehyperion1186 Před 4 lety

    This story is like sadistic karma, he killed the cat and his wife, then the other cat was in the wall with his wife and alerted the policemen and he got what he deserved

  • @elvisargueta2811
    @elvisargueta2811 Před 4 lety +2

    count dooki

  • @tannypattanapirom4293
    @tannypattanapirom4293 Před 4 lety

    Who was man reading the black cat horror book by edgar allan poe in english voice?

  • @asiizt5243
    @asiizt5243 Před 4 lety

    Huh? oh why did my teacher put this in her slides :?

  • @thethundersisters3930

    😲 wowww ty