Poe

Edgar Allen Poe turned the normal into abnormal in the story "The Black Cat" by depicting some sudden unusual behavior of the narrator's pet cat, as well as the narrator. We can already deduct that the narrator has a few screws loose and is quite mad. Just because his cat attempts to attack him, the narrator gruesomely gouges out the cat's eyes. Following this incident, the cat is terrified of it's master and runs every time it sees him. This comes to make the narrator feel bad for it (guilt) but then he gets irritated at it for it's behavior (more rage). He then hangs the cat from a tree because he is so enraged with it.

The cat dies and that night the narrator's house burns down with a silhouette of the cat hanging inexplicably on one of the walls, which frightens the narrator and brings upon more abnormalities to the story. After a while, the narrator comes across a black cat of the same size with a missing eye! He decides to take this cat home to replace his old one. However, the cat's one difference is its white blotch on its chest which takes the shape of gallows more and more each day.

One day at their new house, the cat tries to trip him and the narrator tries to kill it with an axe. He is stopped by his wife, so he kills her instead because of his abnormal rage. He buries her behind the wall, and the cat is gone. The police come over to investigate, but find nothing at first. On the last day they go into the basement and here a high pitch screech from behind the wall in which the narrator's wife was buried. They break down the wall to find the screeching cat atop the dead wife's head, which can be interpreted as the narrator's guilt wallowing and barking to be found out. All-in-all, reading this story or any of Poe's stories is a very abnormal experience.