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Something About Cats and Other Pieces

H. P. Lovecraft

First published 1949
Publisher Arkham House
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Ronald Clyne
Pages ix+306
Price $3.00

original publication dates from Contento No statement of printing or edition. The colophon states that 3000 copies were printed. The actual number is 2995 copies per S.T. Joshi's Sixty Years of Arkham House. Items on unnumbered plates are indicated with the prefix "fcg" and the page they face. Derleth Thirty Years of Arkham House: 41. Joshi Sixty Years of Arkham House: 41. Jaffery The Arkham House Companion: 38. Nielsen Arkham House Books: 42.

Year Reviewer Publication
1950 Arthur F. Hillman Science-Fantasy Review, Spring 1950
1983 Everett F. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)
1993 Gahan Wilson Weird Tales, Spring 1993

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Something About Cats H. P. Lovecraft Essay
19 The Invisible Monster Sonia H. Greene Short Story
26 Four O'Clock Sonia H. Greene Short Story
31 The Horror in the Burying-Ground Hazel Heald Short Story
46 The Last Test Adolphe de Castro Novella
96 The Electric Executioner Adolphe de Castro Novelette
117 Notes and Commentary (Satan's Servants) H. P. Lovecraft Essay
117 Satan's Servants Robert Bloch Novelette
148 The Despised Pastoral H. P. Lovecraft Essay
149 Time and Space H. P. Lovecraft Essay
151 Merlinus Redivivus H. P. Lovecraft Essay
153 At the Root H. P. Lovecraft Essay
156 The Materialist Today H. P. Lovecraft Essay
160 Vermont: A First Impression H. P. Lovecraft Essay
165 The Battle That Ended a Century: (MS. Found in a Time Machine) H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
170 Notes for "The Shadow over Innsmouth" H. P. Lovecraft Essay
176 Discarded Draught of "The Shadow over Innsmouth" H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
184 Notes for "At the Mountains of Madness" H. P. Lovecraft Essay
190 Notes for "The Shadow Out of Time" H. P. Lovecraft Essay
191 August H. P. Lovecraft Poem
191 Phaeton H. P. Lovecraft Poem
192 Death H. P. Lovecraft Poem
193 To the American Flag H. P. Lovecraft Poem
194 To a Youth H. P. Lovecraft Poem
195 My Favorite Character H. P. Lovecraft Poem
197 To Templeton and Mount Monadnock H. P. Lovecraft Poem
198 The House H. P. Lovecraft Poem
199 The City H. P. Lovecraft Poem
201 The Poe-et's Nightmare: A Fable H. P. Lovecraft Poem
211 Sir Thomas Tryout H. P. Lovecraft Poem
213 Lament for the Vanished Spider H. P. Lovecraft Poem
215 Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium H. P. Lovecraft Poem
218 A Memoir of Lovecraft Rheinhart Kleiner Essay
229 Howard Phillips Lovecraft Samuel Loveman Essay
234 Lovecraft as I Knew Him Sonia H. Davis Essay
247 Lovecraft's Sensitivity August Derleth Essay
252 Lovecraft's "Conservative" August Derleth Essay
278 The Man Who Was Lovecraft E. Hoffmann Price Essay
290 A Literary Copernicus Fritz Leiber, Jr. Essay
304 Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight August Derleth Poem
306 HPL Vincent Starrett Poem
vii A Prefatory Note August Derleth Essay