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The Yellow Cat

Wilbur Daniel Steele

First published 1920
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

The captain is sure he is alone on his ship, where mysterious things keep happening—alone, that is, except for a yellow cat who seems more and more sinister.

Notes

All apparently-supernatural events in this story have a mundane explanation, but it nonetheless appears in anthologies of ghost stories because of the mystifying atmosphere it builds up before the truth is revealed. Originally appeared in the March 1915 issue of Harper's Monthly and later reprinted in Steele's first collection of short stories Land's End and Other Stories in 1918.

Publications (6)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1920 Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories Doubleday, Page & Company Anthology 207
April 1989 Cover Purr-fect Crime Lynx Books Anthology 209
June 1993 Cover Mysterious Cat Stories Carroll & Graf Anthology 251
September 1994 Cover Mysterious Cat Stories Galahad Books Anthology 251
January 2009 Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Ghost Stories Project Gutenberg Anthology
January 2010 Cover Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories Dodo Press Anthology