;more than demoniacal?(100), the very thought of his tormentor and the monster that has not left gives him peace and somehow makes the death of his wife less hideous. The relief in finding that the creature had disappeared is stated when he felt a "blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in his bosom?(101). This shows his undeniably, demon-like hatred against the black cat which he calls his "favorite pet and playmate?(97) when he first introduced the creature.
             The strongest evidence in the whole story that the narrator sees the black cat as a demon from the underworld is in the last two paragraphs when he describes the sound that black cat made in the cellar walls to something that "might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation?(101). This is an extremely strong contrast of something which isn't really from the underworld to the hell-fiend that the narrator imagines it
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