The Black Cat

An episode of the Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast podcast, hosted by Richard Gerlach, titled "The Black Cat" was published on March 25, 2021 and runs 80 minutes.

March 25, 2021 ·80m · Staring Into the Abyss: A Podcast

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Episode Description

Author Mike Thorn (Shelter for the Damned) joins us for a spoiler-filled discussion of the 1843 short story, "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allan Poe. Before that, though, we each discuss our Week In Horror with brief reviews of John Lees's latest comic series Hotell, Sci-Fi & Scary's body horror anthology Twisted Anatomy, Alien: The Cold Forge by Alex White, Joanna Koch's The Wingspan of Severed Hands, John Farris's The Axeman Cometh, and Alessandro Manzetti's collection of horror poems inspired by Jack the Ripper, Whitechapel Rhapsody. (Recorded Jan. 24, 2021)

The theme music, "Insidious," was created by Purple Planet Music and is used here under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0.

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