Le chat noir #[nn]

A French-language graphic novel adaptation published by Albin Michel, bringing Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of guilt and the macabre to the comics page. This collected edition presents a visual retelling of 'The Black Cat,' one of Poe's most unsettling horror stories, in which a man's descent into alcoholism and violence is shadowed by a sinister feline presence. French publishers have a strong tradition of adapting Poe's gothic literary canon in bande dessinée form, making this 1999 release part of a broader European appreciation for his dark imagination.