Something About Cats and Other Pieces
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Something About Cats and Other Pieces is a collection of fantasy, horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 and science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

, poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

 and essays by American author H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

. It was released in 1949
1949 in literature
The year 1949 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Arthur C. Clarke becomes Assistant Editor of Science Abstracts.*Bertrand Russell receives the Order of Merit....

 and was the fourth collection of Lovecraft's work published by Arkham House
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

.

The stories for this volume were selected by August Derleth
August Derleth
August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

.

Contents

Something About Cats and Other Pieces contains the following tales:
  1. "A Prefatory Note" by August Derleth
    August Derleth
    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

  2. "The Invisible Monster" by Sonia H. Greene
  3. "Four O'Clock" by Sonia H. Greene
  4. "The Horror in the Burying Ground" by Hazel Heald
  5. "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro
  6. "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro
  7. "Satan's Servants" by Robert Bloch
    Robert Bloch
    Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...

  8. "The Despised Pastoral"
  9. "Time and Space"
  10. "Merlinus Redivivus"
  11. "At the Root"
  12. "The Materialist Today"
  13. "Vermont: A First Impression"
  14. "The Battle That Ended the Century"
  15. "Notes for The Shadow Over Innsmouth
    The Shadow Over Innsmouth
    The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November-December 1931, the story was first published in April 1936; this was the only fiction of Lovecraft's published during his lifetime that did not appear in a periodical....

    "
  16. "Discarded Draught of The Shadow Over Innsmouth
    The Shadow Over Innsmouth
    The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November-December 1931, the story was first published in April 1936; this was the only fiction of Lovecraft's published during his lifetime that did not appear in a periodical....

    "
  17. "Notes for At the Mountains of Madness
    At the Mountains of Madness
    At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories...

    "
  18. "Notes for The Shadow Out of Time
    The Shadow Out of Time
    The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by Americanhorror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories.-Plot summary:...

    "
  19. "Phaeton"
  20. "August"
  21. "To the American Flag"
  22. "To a Youth"
  23. "My Favorite Character"
  24. "To Templeton and Mount Manadnock"
  25. "The House"
  26. "The City"
  27. "The Po-et's Nightmare"
  28. "Sir Thomas Tryout"
  29. "Lament for the Vanished Spider"
  30. "Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium"
  31. "A Memoir of Lovecraft" by Rheinhart Kleiner
  32. "Howard Phillips Lovecraft" by Samuel Loveman
  33. "Lovecraft as I Knew Him" by Sonia H. Davis
  34. "Lovecraft's Sensitivity" by August Derleth
    August Derleth
    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

  35. "Lovecraft's Conservative" by August Derleth
    August Derleth
    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

  36. "The Man Who Was Lovecraft" by E. Hoffmann Price
  37. "A Literary Copernicus" by Fritz Leiber, Jr.
    Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...

  38. "Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight" by August Derleth
    August Derleth
    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

  39. "HPL" by Vincent Starrett
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