《黑猫》是埃德加·爱伦·坡众多短篇恐怖小说中极具代表性的作品之一。小说描述了主人公在酒精作用下,内心逐渐变得阴暗、扭曲、邪恶,随后犯下虐猫、杀猫等一系列恶行,进而遭到黑猫复仇的恐怖故事。作者主要从黑猫意象、原罪思想、文字陷阱和心理陷阱这四个方面着手,通过精心的背景预设进行心理暗示,层层铺垫,成功的编织了一张恐怖之网,将读者笼罩在恐怖之中。 Black Cat is one of the most representative works of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. The novel describes the heroine under the influence of alcohol, the heart becomes gradually dark, twisted, evil, then committed abusive cats, killing cats and a series of bad deeds, and then by the black cat revenge horror story. The author starts from the four aspects of black cat’s image, original sin thoughts, writing traps and psychological traps. Through careful background presupposition, the author makes psychological suggestion and layers of bedding to successfully weave a network of horrors that shrouds the readers into horror Among them.