Why Stephen King Still Matters

Magistrale, Tony

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“…2 Poe himself refers to the: "[…] ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise." (850) The relationship of both Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King with Poe has been proved by studies such as those by Harold Bloom (1986), Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne (1987), or Tony Magistrale (2014) among others. 3 Besides, the authors themselves have recognized Edgar A. Poe as one of their main sources of inspiration.…”

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“The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King

Correoso-Rodenas

2022

Anglo Saxonica

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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.

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confidence: 95%