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The Steel Cat

John Collier

First published November 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"Inventor uses his pet mouse to demonstrate his better mousetrap to an insensitive prospect who insists on seeing the mouse actually die." (Wikipedia)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1951 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday Collection 263
April 1953 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 365
December 1957 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 271
1958 Cover Pictures in the Fire Rupert Hart-Davis Collection 122
1963 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection
1965 Cover Fancies and Goodnights (selections) Time-Life Books Collection 283
1965 Cover De Stalen Kat De Arbeiderspers Collection 129
1969 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Bantam Books Collection 304
November 1972 Cover The John Collier Reader Alfred A. Knopf Collection 426
September 1975 Cover The Best of John Collier Pocket Books Collection
1979 Cover The Best Animal Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy Frederick Warne Anthology 11
1980 Cover Fancies and Goodnights (selections) Time-Life Books Collection 283
March 1981 Cover Fancies and Goodnights Doubleday / SFBC Collection 287
May 2003 Cover Fancies and Goodnights New York Review of Books Collection 304