Literature

• The Black Cat is an 1843 short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe.
• In the 2002 children's novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman, one of the characters is a black cat who acts as a wise yet snide guide to the protagonist, a girl called Coraline. He claims to have an ability to move between worlds at will, and chooses to because the creator of the world he can cross into hates him.

Comics

• Black Cat is a superheroine and occasional supervillainness featured in Marvel Comics
• Black Cat, a Harvey Comics character.
• El Gato Negro (Spanish for "The Black Cat") is an independent American comic.
• Sabrina, The Teenage Witch has a black magical talking cat named Salem.
• Emily the Strange has four black cats: Mystery, Miles, Neechee, and Sabbath.^[11]
• Agatha Harkness, a Marvel Comics character, was a witch with a black cat familiar named Ebony.^[12]

Manga and Anime

• Kutsushita Nyanko (Japanese for "SocksCat") is a traveling black cat that wears white socks. The character was created by San-X.
• Black Cat is a manga featuring an assassin/bounty hunter named Train Heartnet who is nicknamed "Black Cat". The series is written and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki
• Luna is a female black cat character in the anime series Sailor Moon.
• Kiki's Delivery Service has a talking black cat called Jiji, who is Kiki's companion and best friend.
• A tiny black cat named Kuroneko can be seen in every episode of the anime series Trigun.
• Yoruichi Shihōin, a female Shinigami in the series Bleach takes a black cat form.
• The Darker than Black series features a character named Mao who has lost his original body and now resides within that of a black cat.