RT Journal Article
T1 “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King
A1 Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel
AB In one of his most famous stories ever written, “The Black Cat” (1843), Edgar Allan Poe chose an animal as a protagonist. However, this pet was going to have an afterlife as one of the most devilish creatures created by the pen of the Bostonian. More than a century later, Flannery O’Connor included a story in her MFA Thesis entitled “Wildcat.” Years later, in 1955, her most recognized story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” was published. Both narratives include a cat, in this case not as a main “character,” but as the element that triggers the subsequent tragedy. In 1977, the magazine Cavalier published a short story by Stephen King under the title of “The Cat from Hell.” King’s cat also drives its owner to physical and mental destruction, as Pluto, the wildcat, and Pitty Sing had done before it. This article is based on how three stories (O’Connor’s “Wildcat” -1947- and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” -1955- and King’s “The Cat From Hell” -1977-) recreate the characters of the anonymous cat and of Pluto in their pages Moreover, this article also intends to prove the influence of Poe’s “The Black Cat” on authors like Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King.
PB Ubiquity Press
SN 0873-0628
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107719
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107719
LA eng
NO Correoso-Rodenas, J. M. ““The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King”. Anglo Saxonica, No. 20, issue 1, art. 1, 2022, pp. 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.70
NO This article is part of the activities of the Research Group “Poetics and Emerging Textualities: 19th to 21st Centuries” (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), the Research Group “Multidisciplinary Studies in Literature and Art –LyA–” (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), and the Research Groups’ Network “Aglaya: Cultural Myth-Criticism 2020–2,” sponsored by the regional government of Madrid.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025