Supernatural Cats

Introduction SCIENCE FICTION CATS The Game of Rat and Dragon — Cordwainer Smith The Conspirators — James White Space-Time for Springers — Fritz Leiber The Green Cat — Cleve Cartmill Space Cat — Ruthven Todd CAT METAMORPHOSES The Cat Who Became a Queen — Traditional [James Hinton Knowles] The Cat Changed into a Woman — Jean de la Fontaine The White Cat — Comtess d'Aulnoy Smith — Ann Chadwick The Better Choice — S. Fowler Wright Release from Life — Claire Necker TALKING CATS Puss in Boots — Traditional The Troll Cat — Traditional The King of The Cats — Traditional [Washington Irving] The King of the Cats — Stephen Vincent Benét Tobermory — Saki (H. H. Munro) Kitty, Kitty, Kitty — John Pudney My Father, the Cat — Henry Slesar PSYCHIC CATS The Cat That Was Fey — Arthur Stanley Riggs The Attic — Algernon Blackwood The Cat, "I Am" — Gerald Heard Broomsticks — Walter de la Mare The Bad Kittens — Elizabeth Coatsworth UNHOLY CATS: Witches, Warlocks, Familiars, Demon- and Were-cats The Haunted Mill — Traditional The Cyprian Cat — Dorothy L. Sayers A Demon Cat of Old Japan — Traditional The Demon Cat of Connemara — Traditional Balu — August Derleth Compliments of the Author — Lewis Padgett De Black Cat Crossed His Luck — J. D. Corrothers The Yellow Cat — Elinor Mordaunt AVENGING CATS AND GRATEFUL CATS "True" Tales of Avenging Cats: China and Ireland [Ireland by Lady Wilde] The Black Cat — Edgar Allan Poe The Cats of Ulthar — H. P. Lovecraft The Squaw — Bram Stoker The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral — M. R. James Two Grateful Cats: Japan and Ireland NIGHTMARE CATS The Man Who Married His Nightmare — Traditional He Didn't Like Cats — L. Ron Hubbard CAT GHOSTS AND REINCARNATIONS The White Cat of Drumgunniol — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu A Real Cat-Ghost Story — from Animal Ghosts [by Elliot O'Donnell] Two Tales of Haunted Houses — United States Folktales Cat Without a Name — Denys Val Baker FINIS The Language of Cats — Spencer Holst A Feline Felony — Lael J. Littke