Black Cat or variants may refer to:

  • Black cat, a cat with black fur.

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Black Cat (Harvey Comics), a comic book character published from 1941 to 1951
  • Black Cat (Marvel Comics), a comic book character first published in 1979
  • Black Cat pirates, a group of characters in One Piece media

Film

  • Black Cat Films, a series of short films made starting in 1916 by Essanay Studios
  • The Black Cat (1934 film), an American horror film starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff
  • The Black Cat (1941 film), an American comedy/horror film starring Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi
  • Black Cat, a 1959 Indian Hindi-language film starring Balraj Sahni
  • "The Black Cat", a segment of the 1962 AIP anthology horror film Tales of Terror
  • The Black Cat (1981 film) (Gatto nero), an Italian film by Lucio Fulci
  • The Black Cat or Il gatto nero, a 1989 Italian film starring Urbano Barberini
  • "The Black Cat", a segment of the 1990 Italian anthology horror film Two Evil Eyes, directed by Dario Argento
  • Black Cat (1991 film), a Hong Kong film starring Jade Leung and Simon Yam
  • The Black Cat, a 1995 British horror film by Rob Green
  • Black Cat (2007 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film by Vinayan

Television

  • "The Black Cat" (Masters of Horror), a TV episode
  • "The Cat"/"The Black Cat"]], a Spider-Man: The Animated Series episode, 1994

Literature

  • "The Black Cat" (short story), by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Black Cat (manga), a Japanese manga series later adapted into an anime
  • The Black Cat (Canadian magazine), a 1970 Canadian fantasy magazine
  • The Black Cat (US magazine), a late 19th- and early 20th-century American literary magazine
  • Black Cat, a 2004 novel by V. C. Andrews
  • The Black Cat, a 2010 novel by Martha Grimes

Music

Groups

  • Black Cats (band), a US-based Persian pop band

Albums

  • The Black Cat!, a 1970 album by Gene Ammons
  • Kara Kedi ('Black Cat'), a 2010 album by Serdar Ortaç
  • Black Cat (Never Shout Never album), 2015
  • Black Cat (Zucchero album), 2016

Songs

  • "Black Cat" (song), a 1989 song by Janet Jackson
  • "Black Cat", a song by Broadcast from Tender Buttons
  • "Black Cat", a song by Cacophony from Go Off!
  • "Black Cat", a song by Gentle Giant from Acquiring the Taste
  • "Black Cat", a song by Ladytron from Velocifero
  • "Black Cat", a song by the Living End from State of Emergency
  • "Black Cat", a song by Mayday Parade from A Lesson in Romantics
  • "Black Cat", a song by Turbo
  • "Black Cat", a song by Ziggy Marley from Love Is My Religion

Businesses and organizations

Businesses

  • Black Cat, an imprint of the publisher Grove Press
  • Black Cat, a brand of cigarettes by the Carreras Tobacco Company

Organizations

  • 13 Black Cats, or the Black Cats, a 1920s professional stunt flying group
  • Black Cat group, a counter-insurgency militant group in Sri Lanka 1989-1993
  • BlackCat (cyber gang), a ransomware hacker group
  • Black cat, an anarcho-syndicalist symbol
  • National Security Guard, or Black Cats, a counter-terrorism force in India
  • Sunderland A.F.C., or The Black Cats, an English football club

Venues

  • Black Cat (Washington, D.C., nightclub), US
  • Black Cat Bar, in San Francisco, California, US
  • Black Cat Tavern, in Los Angeles, California, US

Military

  • Black Cat (aircraft), an American B-24 bomber shot down in World War II
  • Black Cats (Royal Navy), the Royal Navy's helicopter display team
  • Black Cat Squadron, of the Republic of China Air Force
  • 13th Armored Division (United States), The Black Cats, a division of the U.S. Army in World War II
  • Consolidated PBY Catalina, an American flying boat, nicknamed Black Cat when painted black during World War II

Other uses

  • Black Cat (wrestler) (Victor Manuel 1954–2006), Mexican wrestler
  • Black Cat roundabout, a road intersection in the United Kingdom
  • Ora Black Cat, a Chinese battery electric city car

See also

  • El Gato Negro (disambiguation)
  • Chat Noir (disambiguation)
  • Kuroneko (disambiguation)
  • Black cat analogy, an analogy accounting for the differences between science and religion
  • Chorny Kot (Black Cat), a German-trained Belarusian guerrilla unit during World War II