American Horror N/e (Black Cat. reading And Training)

American Horror: Five Terrifying Tales brings together five of Edgar Allan Poe’s most chilling stories, adapted for B2.1 English learners. The collection explores dark themes of madness, guilt, obsession, and the supernatural through unforgettable characters: a prisoner facing deadly torture in "The Pit and the Pendulum," a dying man suspended between life and death by hypnosis in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," a cruel owner haunted by a vengeful pet in "The Black Cat," an artist who drains his bride's life into his canvas in "The Oval Portrait," and a murderer driven to confess by the imagined sound of his victim's beating heart in "The Tell-Tale Heart".