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Short Story:  The Black Cat (1843) Film: The Black Cat (1934)   Directed by Edga G Ulmer (set designer for Metropolis) would direct this pre-Hayes film based on the Edgar Allen Poe film of the same name.  It would be the biggest Universal box office smash of that year. ​ This would be the first of eight films to pair up Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.   ​ The film is very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story.  In fact, it is so loosely based that the Poe story is almost non-existent.  The film involves a nightmare that involves necrophilia, ailurophobia, drugs, a deadly game of chess, torture, flaying, and a black mass with a human sacrifice.   We are joined by The Literary License Podcast Dark Shadows co-host Tom Diamon.   Opening Credits; Introduction (1.32); Forming the Plot (16.09); Film Trailer (33.59);  Lights, Camera, Action (35.39); Epilogue (1:23.04); End Credits (1:30.53); Closing Credits (1:33.26)   Opening and Closing Credits – thanking Purple Planet Music for our fantastic Opening and Closing Credits.