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

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  • Опубликовано: 23 июл 2016
  • 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.

Комментарии • 204

  • @dextro_whatever
    @dextro_whatever 10 месяцев назад +57

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

  • @karinarivera-lopez8783
    @karinarivera-lopez8783 6 лет назад +170

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

  • @hudibrad
    @hudibrad 7 лет назад +237

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

  • @Koke-Girl
    @Koke-Girl 4 года назад +104

    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 4 года назад +18

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

  • @_Phara0h_404
    @_Phara0h_404 8 месяцев назад +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

  • @annienelson9246
    @annienelson9246 7 лет назад +126

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

  • @millennial8441
    @millennial8441 4 года назад +10

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

  • @ingemaleja
    @ingemaleja 7 лет назад +222

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

    • @kaworureal1736
      @kaworureal1736 6 лет назад +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 5 лет назад +4

      Fr my teacher made us read this:/

    • @jimhuffman9434
      @jimhuffman9434 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @kaworureal1736
      @kaworureal1736 5 лет назад +3

      @@jimhuffman9434 I don't even know. Lol

    • @einsteinsanchezbardales5038
      @einsteinsanchezbardales5038 5 лет назад +1

      The master

  • @thegoblin2684
    @thegoblin2684 2 года назад +48

    Edgar Allan Poe was truly a literary genius .

    • @jbwood3341
      @jbwood3341 Год назад +3

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

    • @FuttBucker42069
      @FuttBucker42069 Год назад

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

  • @PaulKyriazi
    @PaulKyriazi 5 лет назад +58

    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.

  • @empressredbird
    @empressredbird Год назад +38

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

  • @1x_rj_x1
    @1x_rj_x1 2 года назад +33

    Dark, yet beautiful.

  • @jescervoni4538
    @jescervoni4538 5 лет назад +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 Год назад +1

      This is a frontier of the science of consciousness.

    • @DostoyevskyTolstoy
      @DostoyevskyTolstoy 3 месяца назад

      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.

  • @variangst6167
    @variangst6167 3 года назад +21

    Imagine getting exposed by your own cat.

    • @rachael1366
      @rachael1366 9 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @DostoyevskyTolstoy
      @DostoyevskyTolstoy 3 месяца назад +1

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

    • @basedcheese1
      @basedcheese1 2 месяца назад

      ratted out by the cat

  • @names_xaria5145
    @names_xaria5145 4 года назад +98

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

    • @entity6609
      @entity6609 4 года назад +9

      That'd be wild if they were journal entries lol

  • @sprisyatasedai640
    @sprisyatasedai640 4 года назад +5

    This was my one of the best stories by him 😍

  • @aaronburr4558
    @aaronburr4558 4 года назад +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

  • @ivorythebashful
    @ivorythebashful 5 лет назад +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!

  • @_.shapeshifter._
    @_.shapeshifter._ 4 года назад +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 4 года назад +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 4 года назад

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

    • @_.shapeshifter._
      @_.shapeshifter._ 4 года назад +2

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

  • @sergiogarcia4062
    @sergiogarcia4062 8 месяцев назад +3

    The best short story ever😍

  • @bogusbrains7813
    @bogusbrains7813 4 года назад +2

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

  • @remysebbane5557
    @remysebbane5557 5 лет назад +19

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

  • @elricdrick6821
    @elricdrick6821 6 лет назад +14

    I can't sleep now,thanks.

  • @segganew
    @segganew Год назад +21

    Count Dooku reading this is perfect.

  • @millennial8441
    @millennial8441 4 месяца назад

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

  • @ToxicLemonsyeah
    @ToxicLemonsyeah 5 лет назад +3

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

  • @jujurales5171
    @jujurales5171 5 лет назад +1

    Thank u for this, I understand the story better !

  • @jimhuffman9434
    @jimhuffman9434 5 лет назад +4

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

  • @TheSymphisis
    @TheSymphisis 8 лет назад +32

    Thanks for the subtitles! :)

    • @damoniquebarber2820
      @damoniquebarber2820 7 лет назад

      This sounds a little creepy about the knife thing

    • @damoniquebarber2820
      @damoniquebarber2820 7 лет назад

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

    • @TheSymphisis
      @TheSymphisis 7 лет назад

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

  • @oscarsifuentes4273
    @oscarsifuentes4273 Год назад +5

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

  • @hannahgruen6890
    @hannahgruen6890 6 лет назад +11

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

  • @aaliyahbrown6571
    @aaliyahbrown6571 3 года назад +1

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

  • @rachidr5855
    @rachidr5855 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @j_champ3219
    @j_champ3219 6 лет назад +7

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

  • @THEHORSELOVER235
    @THEHORSELOVER235 7 лет назад +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 6 лет назад +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

  • @thayane7532
    @thayane7532 5 лет назад

    Goosebumps!! Very good!!

  • @Pxcklee
    @Pxcklee 4 года назад +4

    Felt bad for the cat 🐈:(

  • @stevenh2535
    @stevenh2535 5 лет назад +1

    My favorite Poe story.

  • @greglong1432
    @greglong1432 4 года назад +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.

  • @memyself4431
    @memyself4431 6 лет назад +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!

  • @thayane7532
    @thayane7532 4 года назад +2

    Love it !! Um dos meus favoritos ❤️

  • @luriandacitra_9d_223
    @luriandacitra_9d_223 Год назад +4

    Dark, but beautiful.

  • @rosea2350
    @rosea2350 Год назад +12

    Adopt a black cat 🖤

    • @Lazy_Gamer23
      @Lazy_Gamer23 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @Nick-qc7wm
      @Nick-qc7wm 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @Lazy_Gamer23
      @Lazy_Gamer23 9 месяцев назад

      @@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.

  • @names_xaria5145
    @names_xaria5145 4 года назад +2

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

  • @ManarManar-jt3ks
    @ManarManar-jt3ks 6 лет назад

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

  • @kaylenamilhone6221
    @kaylenamilhone6221 6 лет назад +36

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

    • @sharpies_yt
      @sharpies_yt 4 года назад

      Kaylena Milhone it’s been edited

    • @bellchris2011
      @bellchris2011 4 года назад +1

      @@sharpies_yt yeah, way more than a paragraph missing

    • @jaredduncan8569
      @jaredduncan8569 Год назад

      It’s abridged

  • @andrewkazakevich8611
    @andrewkazakevich8611 7 лет назад +25

    Such a scary story!

    • @jassidhu7106
      @jassidhu7106 6 лет назад

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

  • @OrangeyGaming
    @OrangeyGaming 4 года назад

    Thanks count duku!!

  • @plan8sk8er
    @plan8sk8er 6 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @Oligoogletookmyname
    @Oligoogletookmyname 5 лет назад +1

    That cat's a hero!

  • @ladybookworms
    @ladybookworms 4 года назад +2

    Music is too loud.

  • @sylviadavila4904
    @sylviadavila4904 4 года назад

    Well done.

  • @majidnba
    @majidnba 7 лет назад +18

    so messed up!

  • @cooleslaw
    @cooleslaw 4 года назад +1

    Nice.

  • @KittyKalavera
    @KittyKalavera 4 года назад +1

    Im crying

  • @BuckerydogSchmuckeryDog
    @BuckerydogSchmuckeryDog 5 лет назад +21

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

    • @omikronweapon
      @omikronweapon 4 года назад +2

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

  • @theoptimistictabby2785
    @theoptimistictabby2785 4 года назад +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)

  • @annpippin6388
    @annpippin6388 2 месяца назад

    List of stories by E.A.Poe

  • @zverina
    @zverina 11 месяцев назад +2

    would love to hear the isolated vocal cut

  • @iancrooks8702
    @iancrooks8702 4 года назад

    thanks

  • @garciadany6759
    @garciadany6759 5 лет назад +2

    Use this to sleep, great voice

  • @1ivingProof
    @1ivingProof 9 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @GoregeousLey
    @GoregeousLey 6 лет назад

    I want to know the name for the intro and outro music.

  • @catherinewilliams4862
    @catherinewilliams4862 6 лет назад +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 6 лет назад +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 5 лет назад +7

      the Gallows row - he foretold his own demise

  • @raquelreyes4325
    @raquelreyes4325 4 года назад

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

  • @ramarialive8074
    @ramarialive8074 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @sungkyuko2606
    @sungkyuko2606 5 лет назад +5

    this is depression

  • @thethundersisters3930
    @thethundersisters3930 Год назад

    😲 wowww ty

  • @ginny709
    @ginny709 5 лет назад

    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.

  • @whodis8272
    @whodis8272 5 лет назад

    What is it with the soung effects?

  • @Nada-ix5ep
    @Nada-ix5ep 4 года назад

    Hi, I hope you can help me, I have an assignment about this story it's (In no more than two long paragraphs or three short ones (one page), discuss how the themes of superstition and violence affect the story.)
    What do you think?

  • @cloudygamegod1918
    @cloudygamegod1918 7 лет назад

    nice

  • @jojo-wr3xn
    @jojo-wr3xn Месяц назад

    we got Count Dooku reading Edgar Allan Poe before GTA VI

  • @k0bramaster165
    @k0bramaster165 4 года назад +2

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

    • @Just_Joshing024
      @Just_Joshing024 4 года назад

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

  • @MichaelWyattMDW
    @MichaelWyattMDW 6 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @theoptimistictabby2785
    @theoptimistictabby2785 4 года назад +1

    Also 4:19 Poor kitty!!

  • @pussinboots9983
    @pussinboots9983 4 года назад +2

    Ohh Gothic tales! I love it!

  • @SebastiaanHolStadsgids
    @SebastiaanHolStadsgids 7 лет назад +4

    Saruman rulezzzzz ♥♥♥ ;-)

  • @j.c.s3552
    @j.c.s3552 4 года назад +7

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

  • @aaronburr4558
    @aaronburr4558 4 года назад

    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 4 года назад

      M Gfngndfsh thats bcuz it is

    • @aaronburr4558
      @aaronburr4558 4 года назад

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

  • @meksone8708
    @meksone8708 5 лет назад

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

  • @bobbytrombley681
    @bobbytrombley681 7 месяцев назад

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

  • @tylorchase2029
    @tylorchase2029 5 лет назад

    I try to write positive and go to heaven.

  • @tannypattanapirom4293
    @tannypattanapirom4293 4 года назад

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

  • @cruisetheautisticboy994
    @cruisetheautisticboy994 5 лет назад +2

    Count dooku is reading this!

  • @joeanderson8839
    @joeanderson8839 6 месяцев назад

    The exact same thing happened to me.

  • @user-vn3ih9tu1o
    @user-vn3ih9tu1o 6 лет назад +5

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

  • @lakynmay
    @lakynmay 5 лет назад +4

    thanks for the nightmares 😂 :)

  • @jassidhu7106
    @jassidhu7106 6 лет назад

    I have a question can u answer

  • @rockerb181
    @rockerb181 6 лет назад

    😍😍😍😍

  • @jacobthompson2189
    @jacobthompson2189 3 года назад +1

    Why do you make me suffer

  • @thayane7532
    @thayane7532 4 года назад

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

  • @Lazy_Gamer23
    @Lazy_Gamer23 9 месяцев назад +1

    I- *Shooketh* 😨

  • @TheJoeyboots
    @TheJoeyboots 4 года назад

    New writing?

  • @arandomvillager488
    @arandomvillager488 3 года назад +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

  • @inesa1076
    @inesa1076 4 года назад +1

    This is fun homework tho

  • @SickTwistedQueen
    @SickTwistedQueen 9 месяцев назад +3

    Don't f*ck with cats.

  • @imabookwyrm
    @imabookwyrm 6 лет назад

    00:00

  • @user-pw1xo5nw2p
    @user-pw1xo5nw2p 9 месяцев назад +4

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