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Upon its head, with red, extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast

Edition data

TitleThe Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Edited and Chronologically Arranged on the Basis of the Standard Text, with Certain Addit

WorkThe Black Cat

Editing placeLondon / New York

EditorialG. P. Putnam’s Sons / The Knickerbocker Press

Year1902

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Illustration data

TitleUpon its head, with red, extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast

IllustratorFrederick Simpson Coburn

Engraver

Topic/Content
5. Murder of the wife and discovery of the corpse

Technique
Photogravure

Characters
Narrator's wife
Pluto II

Places
Cellar

Objects
Bricks
Plaster

Plants and animals
Cat

Others
Body
Brain
Carcass
Corpse
Grave
Mortar
Splotch of white
Tomb
Wall
Walls

Location in the book (volume)5

Location in the book (page)f.p. 186

Illustration measurements (in cms)14 x 9

Page measurements (in cms)23 x 16

Color/B&WBlack and white

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