Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• xiii • Introduction (Supernatural Cats) • essay by Claire Necker
• 1 • Science Fiction Cats • essay by Claire Necker
• 3 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • short story by Cordwainer Smith
• 20 • The Conspirators • (1954) • novelette by James White
• 49 • Space-Time for Springers • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1958) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 62 • The Green Cat • (1951) • short story by Cleve Cartmill
• 68 • Space Cat (excerpt from Space Cat Visits Venus) • (1955) • short fiction by Ruthven Todd
• 79 • Cat Metamorphoses • essay by Claire Necker
• 81 • The Cat Who Became a Queen • short story by uncredited
• 84 • The Cat Changed into a Woman • (1678) • poem by Jean de La Fontaine (trans. of La chatte métamorphosée en femme)
• 86 • The White Cat • (1928) • novelette by Comtesse d'Aulnoy (trans. of La chatte blanche 1697)
• 92 • Smith • (1952) • short story by Ann Chadwick
• 103 • The Better Choice • (1955) • short story by S. Fowler Wright
• 105 • Release from Life • short story by Claire Necker
• 109 • Talking Cats • essay by Claire Necker
• 111 • Puss in Boots • poem by uncredited
• 115 • The Troll Cat • poem by uncredited
• 117 • The King of the Cats • short story by Washington Irving [as by uncredited]
• 119 • The King of the Cats • (1929) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 135 • Tobermory • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 144 • Kitty, Kitty, Kitty • (1968) • short story by John Pudney
• 148 • My Father, the Cat • (1957) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 157 • Psychic Cats • essay by Claire Necker
• 158 • The Cat That Was Fey • (1951) • short story by Arthur Stanley Riggs
• 168 • The Attic • (1912) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 175 • The Cat "I Am" • (1944) • short story by Gerald Heard
• 192 • Broomsticks • juvenile • (1925) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 216 • The Bad Kittens • (1929) • poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 217 • Unholy Cats: Witch Cats, Warlocks, Familiars, Demon- and Were-Cats • essay by Claire Necker
• 219 • The Haunted Mill • short story by uncredited
• 221 • The Cyprian Cat • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 235 • A Demon Cat of Old Japan • short story by uncredited
• 237 • The Demon Cat of Connemara • short story by uncredited
• 239 • Balu • (1949) • short story by August Derleth
• 249 • Compliments of the Author • (1942) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 290 • De Black Cat Crossed His Luck • (1902) • poem by J. D. Corrothers
• 292 • The Yellow Cat • (1932) • novelette by Elinor Mordaunt
• 315 • Avenging Cats and Grateful Cats • essay by Claire Necker
• 316 • "True" Stories of Avenging Cats • short story by uncredited
• 318 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 329 • The Cats of Ulthar • [Dream Cycle] • (1920) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 333 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 347 • The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral • (1910) • short story by M. R. James
• 363 • Two Grateful Cats • short story by uncredited
• 365 • Nightmare Cats • essay by Claire Necker
• 366 • The Man Who Married His Nightmare • short story by uncredited
• 368 • He Didn't Like Cats • (1942) • short story by L. Ron Hubbard
• 387 • Cat Ghosts and Reincarnations • essay by Claire Necker
• 388 • The White Cat of Drumgunniol • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 401 • A Real Cat-Ghost Story • short story by uncredited
• 409 • Two Tales of Haunted Houses • short story by uncredited
• 411 • Cat Without a Name • (1962) • short story by Denys Val Baker
• 421 • The Language of Cats • (1971) • short story by Spencer Holst
• 433 • A Feline Felony • (1968) • short story by Lael Littke [as by Lael J. Littke]