By mid-June 1908 Debussy had begun another opera based on a Poe tale, the darker Fall of the House of Usher.

Even so, compared to the endings of other Poe tales where the dead lover returns from beyond the grave, this is a "happy" ending, free of antagonism, guilt, or resentment.

The middle segment of director Roger Corman's 1962 anthology film Tales of Terror combines the story of "The Black Cat" with that of another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado."

The 1990 film Two Evil Eyes presents two Poe tales, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" and "The Black Cat."

Recognizing its previous success with Vincent Price films based on Edgar Allan Poe stories, American-International shoehorned a fragment of a wholly unrelated Poe tale into the film's plot and released it as "Edgar Allan Poe's Haunted Palace."

The film was directed by Roger Corman; the screenplay by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell was based upon the 1842 short story of the same name by American author Edgar Allan Poe and incorporates a sub-plot based on another Poe tale, "Hop-Frog".

It incorporates a sub-plot based on another Poe tale, "Hop-Frog."

It is a futuristic adaptation of the Poe tale.

"The Man of the Crowd" and "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" are the other Poe tales transformed into a shadow-puppet play with music and video projections.

The three short sequences are based on the following Poe tales: "Morella", "The Black Cat" which is combined with another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar".