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Supernatural Cats

Claire Necker

First published 1972
Publisher Doubleday
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Margo Herr
Pages xiv+439
Price $6.95
ISBN 0385075618

  • "First Edition"
  • No date other than year. Exact publication date from Kirkus Reviews.
  • No number line
  • Stories are divided into sections. Except for the last section, every section has a short intro essay.
  • Uncredited stories have no credit on the title page. In the ToC, several are listed as "Traditional"
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • 'Unholy Cats: Witch Cats, ...' appears in ToC as 'Unholy Cats: Witches, ...'
  • '"True" Stories of Avenging Cats' appears in ToC as' "True" Stories of Avenging Cats: China and Ireland'
  • 'Two Grateful Cats' appears in ToC as 'Two Grateful Cats: Japan and Ireland'
  • No information provided on translators or traditional story sources.

Year Reviewer Publication
1976 Fritz Leiber Fantastic, November 1976

Searching by ISBN: 0385075618

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Science Fiction Cats Claire Necker Essay
3 The Game of Rat and Dragon Cordwainer Smith Short Story
20 The Conspirators James White Novelette
49 Space-Time for Springers Fritz Leiber Short Story
62 The Green Cat Cleve Cartmill Short Story
68 Space Cat (excerpt from Space Cat Visits Venus) Ruthven Todd Short Fiction
79 Cat Metamorphoses Claire Necker Essay
81 The Cat Who Became a Queen uncredited Short Story
84 The Cat Changed into a Woman Jean de La Fontaine Poem
86 The White Cat Comtesse d'Aulnoy Novelette
92 Smith Ann Chadwick Short Story
103 The Better Choice S. Fowler Wright Short Story
105 Release from Life Claire Necker Short Story
109 Talking Cats Claire Necker Essay
111 Puss in Boots uncredited Poem
115 The Troll Cat uncredited Poem
117 The King of the Cats uncredited Short Story
119 The King of the Cats Stephen Vincent Benét Short Story
135 Tobermory Saki Short Story
144 Kitty, Kitty, Kitty John Pudney Short Story
148 My Father, the Cat Henry Slesar Short Story
157 Psychic Cats Claire Necker Essay
158 The Cat That Was Fey Arthur Stanley Riggs Short Story
168 The Attic Algernon Blackwood Short Story
175 The Cat "I Am" Gerald Heard Short Story
192 Broomsticks Walter de la Mare Novelette
216 The Bad Kittens Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
217 Unholy Cats: Witch Cats, Warlocks, Familiars, Demon- and Were-Cats Claire Necker Essay
219 The Haunted Mill uncredited Short Story
221 The Cyprian Cat Dorothy L. Sayers Short Story
235 A Demon Cat of Old Japan uncredited Short Story
237 The Demon Cat of Connemara uncredited Short Story
239 Balu August Derleth Short Story
249 Compliments of the Author Lewis Padgett Novelette
290 De Black Cat Crossed His Luck J. D. Corrothers Poem
292 The Yellow Cat Elinor Mordaunt Novelette
315 Avenging Cats and Grateful Cats Claire Necker Essay
316 "True" Stories of Avenging Cats uncredited Short Story
318 The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
329 The Cats of Ulthar H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
333 The Squaw Bram Stoker Short Story
347 The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral M. R. James Short Story
363 Two Grateful Cats uncredited Short Story
365 Nightmare Cats Claire Necker Essay
366 The Man Who Married His Nightmare uncredited Short Story
368 He Didn't Like Cats L. Ron Hubbard Short Story
387 Cat Ghosts and Reincarnations Claire Necker Essay
388 The White Cat of Drumgunniol Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
401 A Real Cat-Ghost Story uncredited Short Story
409 Two Tales of Haunted Houses uncredited Short Story
411 Cat Without a Name Denys Val Baker Short Story
421 The Language of Cats Spencer Holst Short Story
433 A Feline Felony Lael J. Littke Short Story
xiii Introduction (Supernatural Cats) Claire Necker Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Supernatural Cats Cover 1974 Warner Paperback Library Paperback Anthology 59-370 Tony Ruta 446