sjahssSJAHSSSJAHSS2788-9424https://doi.org/10.47310/sjahss.2022.v02i01.015The Resurrected Cat as a Curse in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black CatRua’aAliMahmood`Al-Esraa University College, Baghdad, IraqFor centuries, cats have been essential characters in art and literature. They serve as an intense metaphor in literary works because of their mysterious personality, intelligence and complexity. The purpose of the paper is to examine the damnation of the resurrected cats in Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”. The paper will testify the resemblance of the two resurrected cats’ manifestation and their role as a curse that turns the life of the protagonists’ upside-down and leads to their miserable destiny.