In Mike Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher, many fans were horrified by the assumed fate of Pluto the cat. They were relieved when Mike Flanagan confirmed Pluto's survival in post on X. In Flanagan's post, he specifically mentions that Pluto's fate in The Fall of the House of Usher diverges from the cat's fate in Edgar Allen Poe's original short story "The Black Cat," where the cat remained deceased.
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