The Tell-Tale Heart vs. The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat,” have many similarities as well as differences. The two stories can be compared for both have similar themes as well as corresponding plots. However, the two stories also contrast considering their different endings. Both of Poe’s stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat,” have the theme of death and murder. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator murder’s an old man with “a pale blue eye, with a film over it.” In the story, “The Black Cat,” the narrator murders his wife. The plots of the two stories are also alike for they both begin with the narrator reflecting on his crime, not seeing that he is “mad,” and end with