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The Black Cat of the Witch-Dance-Place

Frances Jenkins Olcott

First published August 1936
Type Short Fiction

  • Published in Olcott, Wonder Tales from Goblin Hills: From the German and English (Longmans, 1930) --expanded from The Supernatural Index (snippets viewed at google), which covers both the 1936 and 1958 anthologies
  • One WorldCat library record of that 1930 collection Wonder Tales from Goblin Hills, {{OCLC|1652194}} provides a list of Contents that does not include this title. If that report is reliable, this story is probably published there under the title   "Walpurgis Witch-Night (Hexantanzplatz)" or the same with correct spelling Hexentanzplatz (German, literally Witches-Dance-Place).
  • "The Black Cat of the Witch-Dance-People" may be a genuine variant title. That is reported by one WorldCat record of the 1936 anthology in its 1st ed., {{OCLC|1445403}}, where it is probably a mistake.
  • One WorldCat record of the 1936 anthology in a 1942 reprint, {{OCLC|704434597}} (known to report the wrong illustrator) shows "Witch-Dance-Place".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1936 Cover Ghosts and Goblins: Stories for Hallowe'en and Other Times E. P. Dutton Anthology 133
1958 Cover Witches, Witches, Witches Franklin Watts Anthology 194
1958 Cover Witches, Witches, Witches Scholastic Anthology 194
1977 Witches, Witches, Witches Franklin Watts Anthology 194