text: This color appears in the title of a story in which the narrator sees a white patch on a "brute beast" slowly resolve itself into the shape of a gallows.
full_question: This color appears in the title of a story in which the narrator sees a white patch on a "brute beast" slowly resolve itself into the shape of a gallows. A clock of this color regularly interrupts the musicians in a story in which a dagger-wielding man chases a "mummer" into a room decorated in this color, only to fall dead. In a short story, an alcoholic who buries his wife in his cellar uses a penknife to remove the(*) eye of Pluto, an animal of this color. Another animal of this color is asked "is there balm in Gilead?" as it sits on a bust of Pallas after appearing on a "midnight dreary" while the poet "pondered, weak and weary". For 10 points, name this color of the title cat of a story by Edgar Allen Poe, who used it to describe the "plume" of "The Raven".
first_sentence: This color appears in the title of a story in which the narrator sees a white patch on a "brute beast" slowly resolve itself into the shape of a gallows.
raw_answer: black [or ebony; accept "The Black Cat"]