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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Edgar Allan Poe's Poe's Stories. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Unfinished Business. An unfinished manuscript of Poe’s was found after his death amongst his papers, and writer Joyce Carol Oates was inspired to finish it off. She turned Poe’s potential page-turner into a new story called The Fabled Light-House at Vina del Mar.
Poe’s Pets. Though many of Poe’s stories are influences by real events and characters, his violence towards cats in The Black Cat couldn’t be further from the truth. Poe was a cat-lover, and his own cat was named Catterina!