My reprint anthology of cat stories (sf/f/h) is being reissued with a new cover (no, it’s not Jack the Jerk, although it resembles him slightly) June 7th-with what we hope will be a more effective cover. This is the book for which I created number system as a guide for those who are squeamish and don’t want to read horror stories in which cats are harmed. I’ll post that separately. You can pre-order the book now.
It has come to our attention that some reviewers assert that “you’ll find cats being burned alive, skinned, tortured by evil scientists, strangled by psychos, and murdered in at least a dozen horrific ways.” We at Night Shade want to assure our readers that relatively very few cats were harmed in the making of this anthology.
In order to reassure cat lovers who are fearful of accidentally coming across a tale of a cat being harmed, we have created this handy little guide.
1 Cat torture
2 Cat dies off stage
3 Cat dies on stage
4 Cat is roughed up
5 No cat harmed whatsoever
Through the Looking Glass (excerpt) Lewis Carroll 5
No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be… A. R. Morlan 5
The Price Neil Gaiman 4
Dark Eyes, Faith, and Devotion Charles de Lint 5
Not Waving Michael Marshall Smith 2
Catch Ray Vukcevich 3(verging on 1, if you wish)
The Manticore Spell Jeffrey Ford 5
Catskin Kelly Link 3 (verging on 1
Mieze Corrects an Incomplete Representation of Reality Michaela Roessner 5 (might be future harm)
Guardians George R. R. Martin 5
Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats Michael Bishop 1
Gordon, the Self-Made Cat Peter S. Beagle 5
The Jaguar Hunter Lucius Shepard 5
Arthur’s Lion Tanith Lee 5
Pride Mary A. Turzillo 5
The Burglar Takes a Cat Lawrence Block 5
The White Cat Joyce Carol Oates 3
Returns Jack Ketchum 2
Puss-Cat Reggie Oliver 5
Cat in Glass Nancy Etchemendy 5
Coyote Peyote Carole Nelson Douglas 5
The Poet and the Inkmaker’s Daughter Elizabeth Hand 5
The Night of the Tiger Stephen King 2
Every Angel is Terrifying John Kessel 3
Candia Graham Joyce 5
Mbo Nicholas Royle 5
Bean Bag Cats® Edward Bryant 4
Antiquities John Crowley 3 (they start off dead)
The Manticore’s Tale Catherynne M. Valente 5
In Carnation Nancy Springer 5
Old Foss is the Name of His Cat David Sandner 5
A Safe Place to Be Carol Emshwiller 5
Nine Lives to Live Sharyn McCrumb 5
6Tiger Kill Kaaron Warren 5
Something Better than Death Lucy Sussex 5
Dominion Christine Lucas 5
Tiger in the Snow Daniel Wynn Barber 5
The Dweller in High Places Susanna Clarke 5
The Puma Theodora Goss 1 (before story begins)
Healing Benjamin Dennis Danvers 3 (peacefully)
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