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* BodyHorror: Virginia coughing copius ammounts of blood. Later Poe [[spoiler: accidentally hacks her on the head... and she doesn't die instantly.]]
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* BodyHorror: Virginia coughing copius ammounts copious amounts of blood. Later Poe [[spoiler: accidentally hacks her on the head... and she doesn't die instantly.]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Virginia Clem Poe is played by the gorgeous Elyse Levesque. The one confirmed portrait of Virginia depicts her as rather plain looking, with a round face and a double chin.
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* AnAxeToGrind: By the end, Poe tries to kill the cat with an ax. It doesn't end well.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The last time the cat returns he stands on [[spoiler:Virginia's body]] and screams instead of going to Poe directly.
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* SecretHistory: Although based on Poe's story, the episode is framed as showing the events that led him to come up with that story.
* ShowWithinAShow: Poe begins to write his ''The Black Cat'' at the end of the episode, inspired by previous events.
* ShowWithinAShow: Poe begins to write his ''The Black Cat'' at the end of the episode, inspired by previous events.
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* WritersBlock: Poe struggles to write a line for most of the episode.
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Directed by Creator/StuartGordon and based on a short story by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. Set in Philadelphia around 1840, Edgar Allan Poe (Creator/JeffreyCombs) is going through a bad case of WritersBlock as he begins to hit the bottle more than usual and his young wife Virginia (Elyse Levesque) contracts tuberculosis. To make things worse, their pet black cat Pluto begins to act a lot [[CatsAreMean meaner than usual]].
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Directed by Creator/StuartGordon and based on a short story by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.Set in Philadelphia around 1840, In 1840s Philadelphia, Edgar Allan Poe (Creator/JeffreyCombs) is going through a bad case of WritersBlock as he begins to hit the bottle more than usual and his young wife Virginia (Elyse Levesque) contracts tuberculosis. To make things worse, their pet black cat Pluto begins to act a lot [[CatsAreMean meaner than usual]].
Directed by Creator/StuartGordon and based on a short story by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.
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* TheAlcoholic: Poe.
* AllJustADream
* AllJustADream
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* TheAlcoholic: Poe.
Poe, to the point that the habit is bankrupting him.
*AllJustADreamAllJustADream: [[spoiler:The end reveals that virtually nothing in the episode happened and that both the cat and Virginia are alive and healthy (rather than undead).]]
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Virginia, the cat]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Virginia, coupled with IncurableCoughOfDeath.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Poe accidentally hacks Virginia on the head. She doesn't die instantly.]]
* ColorWash: Red is very bright, while other colors are toned down.
* EyeScream: Poe attacks the cat with a cutter.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Poe and his wife.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Virginia, coupled with IncurableCoughOfDeath.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Poe accidentally hacks Virginia on the head. She doesn't die instantly.]]
* ColorWash: Red is very bright, while other colors are toned down.
* EyeScream: Poe attacks the cat with a cutter.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Poe and his wife.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Virginia, Both Virginia and the cat]].
cat return after they die]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Virginia, coupled withIncurableCoughOfDeath.
IncurableCoughOfDeath, as a result of her tuberculosis.
* BodyHorror: Virginia coughing copius ammounts of blood. Later Poe [[spoiler:Poe accidentally hacks Virginia her on the head. She head... and she doesn't die instantly.]]
* CatsAreMean: The cat's increasing meanness and unwillingness to go away are the main drive of the story.
* CatStereotype: Pluto is a supernatural all-black cat and bringer of doom to his owners.
* ColorWash: Red is very bright, while other colors aretoned down.
dulled.
* EyeScream: Happens when Poe attacks the cat with a cutter.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Both Poe and his wife.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Virginia, coupled with
* BodyHorror: Virginia coughing copius ammounts of blood. Later Poe [[spoiler:
* CatsAreMean: The cat's increasing meanness and unwillingness to go away are the main drive of the story.
* CatStereotype: Pluto is a supernatural all-black cat and bringer of doom to his owners.
* ColorWash: Red is very bright, while other colors are
* EyeScream: Happens when Poe attacks the cat with a cutter.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Both Poe and his wife.
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* JacobMarleyApparel: No matter what happens to the cat, it just comes back with the mark of it.
* JerkAss: Poe.
* KindheartedCatLover: Virginia.
* JerkAss: Poe.
* KindheartedCatLover: Virginia.
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* JacobMarleyApparel: No matter what happens to the cat, it just comes back with to life while bearing the mark of it.
* JerkAss: Poe.
* KindheartedCatLover: Virginia.Virginia is dutiful to her cat. Also to her pet fish and husband.
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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Poe tries to use this at the bar, and fails because ''everybody'' knows who he is. And that he doesn't pay.
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* StarvingArtist: Poe is both a celebrity writer and an impoverished man.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: The cat keeps returning to Poe even after he kills it... repeatedly.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Poe tries to use this atthe a bar, and but fails because ''everybody'' knows who he is. And that he doesn't pay.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: The cat keeps returning to Poe even after he kills it... repeatedly.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Poe tries to use this at
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Directed by Stuart Gordon and based on a short story by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. Set in Philadelphia around 1840, Edgar Allan Poe (Creator/JeffreyCombs) is going through a bad case of WritersBlock as he begins to hit the bottle more than usual and his young wife Virginia (Elyse Levesque) contracts tuberculosis. To make things worse, their pet black cat Pluto begins to act a lot [[CatsAreMean meaner than usual]].
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Directed by Stuart Gordon Creator/StuartGordon and based on a short story by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. Set in Philadelphia around 1840, Edgar Allan Poe (Creator/JeffreyCombs) is going through a bad case of WritersBlock as he begins to hit the bottle more than usual and his young wife Virginia (Elyse Levesque) contracts tuberculosis. To make things worse, their pet black cat Pluto begins to act a lot [[CatsAreMean meaner than usual]].
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%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Virginia, the cat]].
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Directed by Stuart Gordon and based on a short story by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. Set in Philadelphia around 1840, Edgar Allan Poe (Creator/JeffreyCombs) is going through a bad case of WritersBlock as he begins to hit the bottle more than usual and his young wife Virginia (Elyse Levesque) contracts tuberculosis. To make things worse, their pet black cat Pluto begins to act a lot [[CatsAreMean meaner than usual]].
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%%* TheAlcoholic: Poe.
%%* AllJustADream
* AnAxeToGrind: By the end, Poe tries to kill the cat with an ax. It doesn't end well.
* AnswerCut: "Really, Mr. Poe, where does all the money go?" [[TheAlcoholic Glug glug glug]].
%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Virginia, the cat]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Virginia, coupled with IncurableCoughOfDeath.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Poe accidentally hacks Virginia on the head. She doesn't die instantly.]]
* ColorWash: Red is very bright, while other colors are toned down.
* EyeScream: Poe attacks the cat with a cutter.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Poe and his wife.
* IndulgentFantasySegue: Poe goes through one when talking to his editor.
* JacobMarleyApparel: No matter what happens to the cat, it just comes back with the mark of it.
%%* JerkAss: Poe.
%%* KindheartedCatLover: Virginia.
* KissingCousins: One of the men [[spoiler: attending Virginia's funeral]] remarks that the Poes are first cousins. "Something perhaps acceptable in [[DeepSouth Richmond]], but not here".
* LivingShadow: The cat, when he follows Poe to his second home.
* MeaningfulName: In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Pluto is the king of the Underworld.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Poe tries to use this at the bar, and fails because ''everybody'' knows who he is. And that he doesn't pay.
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!!Tropes:
%%* TheAlcoholic: Poe.
%%* AllJustADream
* AnAxeToGrind: By the end, Poe tries to kill the cat with an ax. It doesn't end well.
* AnswerCut: "Really, Mr. Poe, where does all the money go?" [[TheAlcoholic Glug glug glug]].
%%* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Virginia, the cat]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Virginia, coupled with IncurableCoughOfDeath.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Poe accidentally hacks Virginia on the head. She doesn't die instantly.]]
* ColorWash: Red is very bright, while other colors are toned down.
* EyeScream: Poe attacks the cat with a cutter.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Poe and his wife.
* IndulgentFantasySegue: Poe goes through one when talking to his editor.
* JacobMarleyApparel: No matter what happens to the cat, it just comes back with the mark of it.
%%* JerkAss: Poe.
%%* KindheartedCatLover: Virginia.
* KissingCousins: One of the men [[spoiler: attending Virginia's funeral]] remarks that the Poes are first cousins. "Something perhaps acceptable in [[DeepSouth Richmond]], but not here".
* LivingShadow: The cat, when he follows Poe to his second home.
* MeaningfulName: In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Pluto is the king of the Underworld.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Poe tries to use this at the bar, and fails because ''everybody'' knows who he is. And that he doesn't pay.
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