Cry of the Cat

infobox Book |
name = Cry of the Cat
orig title =
translator =


author = R. L. Stine
cover_artist = Tim Jacobus
country = United States
language = English
series =
classification = Fiction
genre = Horror fiction, Children's literature
publisher = Scholastic
release_date = January 1998
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 119 pp
isbn =
preceded_by = Monster Blood IV
followed_by = Bride of the Living Dummy

Cry of the Cat is the first novel of R. L. Stine's "Goosebumps: Series 2000". It is about a girl named Allison Moore who finds a strange gray cat named Rip that scratches her, but the scratches glow and heal quickly. As the story progresses, Allison becomes more and more like a cat, and finds out that Rip has a disease that turns its victims cat-like and eventually kills them by taking a bit of their life with him.

Trivia

The book was first published in January 1998. The story bears a close resemblance to Stine's earlier short story "The Cat's Tale".

TV Adaptation

In the TV version of this episode, the protagonist is a teen actress who is starring in the film version of a horror movie called "Cry of the Cat". The rest of the plot follows the original story. The cat keeps coughing and coughing and coughing because he swallowed a toy mouse. Also in the TV adaption, a special cameo included the exact same sign that appeared in the TV episode "one day at Horrorland".

Tagline

"Dead cat walking.."

The film in the episode is based on the same book