Something About Cats and Other Pieces

Something About Cats and Other Pieces

Infobox Book
name = Something About Cats and Other Pieces
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image_caption = Jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne for "Something About Cats"
author = H. P. Lovecraft
illustrator =
cover_artist = Ronald Clyne
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = fantasy, horror, science fiction short stories, poetry, essay, memoir
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1949
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = ix, 306 pp
isbn = NA
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"Something About Cats and Other Pieces" is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories, poetry and essays by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1949 and was the fourth collection of Lovecraft's work published by Arkham House.

The stories for this volume were selected by August Derleth.

Contents

"Something About Cats and Other Pieces" contains the following tales:

# "A Prefatory Note" by August Derleth
# "The Invisible Monster" by Sonia H. Greene
# "Four O'Clock" by Sonia H. Greene
# "The Horror in the Burying Ground" by Hazel Heald
# "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro
# "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro
# "Satan's Servants" by Robert Bloch
# "The Despised Pastoral"
# "Time and Space"
# "Merlinus Redivivus"
# "At the Root"
# "The Materialist Today"
# "Vermont: A First Impression"
# "The Battle That Ended the Century"
# "Notes for The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
# "Discarded Draught of The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
# "Notes for At the Mountains of Madness"
# "Notes for The Shadow Out of Time"
# "Phaeton"
# "August"
# "To the American Flag"
# "To a Youth"
# "My Favorite Character"
# "To Templeton and Mount Manadnock"
# "The House"
# "The City"
# "The Po-et's Nightmare"
# "Sir Thomas Tryout"
# "Lament for the Vanished Spider"
# "Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium"
# "A Memoir of Lovecraft" by Rheinhart Kleiner
# "Howard Phillips Lovecraft" by Samuel Loveman
# "Lovecraft as I Knew Him" by Sonia H. Davis
# "Lovecraft's Sensitivity" by August Derleth
# "Lovecraft's Conservative" by August Derleth
# "The Man Who Was Lovecraft" by E. Hoffman Price
# "A Literary Copernicus" by Fritz Leiber, Jr.
# "Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight" by August Derleth
# "HPL" by Vincent Starrett

Reprints

*New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=36-37| date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=32-33 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=54-55 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=71-72 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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