The Second Cat Megapack. George Zebrowski

      COPYRIGHT INFO

      The Second Cat Megapack is copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the publisher. Cover art © KatyaKatya / Fotolia.

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      “Introduction: All Cats Are Gray…,” by Robert Reginald, is original to this book. Copyright © 2013 by Robert Reginald. Published by arrangement with the author.

      “The Cats of Ulthar,” by H. P. Lovecraft, was originally published in The Tryout, November, 1920.

      “The Cat with the Tulip Face” was originally published as a chapbook as part of the series, Short Story Paperbacks, #29, 1991, and reprinted in Ewerton Death Trip: A Walk Through the Dark Side of Town, by A. R. Morlan, Borgo Press, 2011, and in The Hemingway Kittens and Other Feline Fancies and Fantasies, by A. R. Morlan, Borgo Press, 2013. Copyright © 1991, 2011, 2013 by A. R. Morlan. Reprinted by arrangement with the author.

      “The Mountain Cage,” by Pamela Sargent, was originally published as The Mountain Cage in chapbook form by Cheap Street, New Castle, VA, 1983. Copyright © 1983, 2013 by Pamela Sargent. Reprinted by arrangement with the author.

      “The Woman Who Hated Cats,” by Margaret St. John Bathe, was originally published in Weird and Occult Miscellany, Gerald G. Swan, London, 1949, and reprinted in Fantasy Adventures #1, Cosmos Books, Wildside Press, 2002. Copyright © 1949, 2002, 2013 by Margaret Dulling. Reprinted by arrangement with Cosmos Literary Agency.

      “The Cat Who Changed into a Woman,” by Eugène Scribe, translated by Frank J. Morlock, was originally published in Zeneida & The Follies of Love & The Cat Who Changed into a Woman: Three Plays, edited and translated by Frank J. Morlock, Borgo Press, 2013. Reprinted by arrangement with the editor/translator.

      “White Comma,” by A. R. Morlan, was originally published in Transver­sions, Issue 10, 1999 (Canada), and reprinted in The Hemingway Kittens and Other Feline Fancies and Fantasies, by A. R. Morlan, Borgo Press, 2013. Copyright © 1999, 2013 by A. R. Morlan. Reprinted by arrangement with the author.

      “Moncrif’s Cats: First Letter,” by François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, translated by Reginald Bretnor, was originally published under the title, Moncrif’s Cats: Les Chats de François Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1961, and reprinted by Wildside Press, 2013. Copyright © 1961 by Reginald Bretnor; Copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC. Reprinted by arrangement with the author’s estate.

      “Cat,” by Reginald Bretnor, was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April, 1953. Copyright © 1953 by Reginald Bretnor; Copyright © 1997 by Story Books. Reprinted by arrangement with the author’s estate.

      “Traps,” by Jack Dann and George Zebrowksi, was first published in Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1970, and reprinted in Decimated: Ten Science Fiction Stories, by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski, Borgo Press, 2012. Copyright © 1970 Universal Publishing & Distributing Corp.; Copyright © 2012, 2013 by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski. Reprinted by arrangement with the authors.

      “The Black Cat’s Eyes,” by Benjamin F. Ferrill, was originally published in West, March 3, 1928.

      “Cat on a Hot Tar Roof,” by Gary Lovisi, was originally published in Attitude: Stories, by Gary Lovisi, Borgo Press, 2013. Copyright © 2013 by Gary Lovisi. Reprinted by arrangement with the author.

      “Cry from a Far Planet,” by Tom Godwin, was originally published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, September, 1958.

      “Cat Thief,” by Ernest Dudley, was originally published as “The White Mog” in The Church Cat: Clerical Cats in Stories and Verse, edited by Mark Bryant, Hodder & Stoughton Canada, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Ernest Dudley. Reprinted by arrangement with Cosmos Literary Agency.

      “Legend of the Cat,” by Mary Rocker-Gramlich and Charles Allen Gramlich, was originally published in E-Genre #19, 2001. Copyright © 2001, 2013 by Mary Rocker-Gramlich and Charles Allen Gramlich. Reprinted by arrangement with the authors.

      “Cat Burglar,” by Robert Reginald, is original to this book. Copyright © 2013 by Robert Reginald. Published by arrangement with the author.

      A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

      Over the last few years, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”

      The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Reginald Bretnor, Mary Wickizer Burgess, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!)

      This volume was edited by Robert Reginald and Mary Wickizer Burgess.

      —John Betancourt

      Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

      www.wildsidepress.com

      A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS

      The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your reader.)

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      Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.

      TYPOS

      Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.

      If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone. You can email the publisher at [email protected] or use the message boards above.

      THE MEGAPACK SERIES

      MYSTERY

      The Achmed Abdullah Megapack

      The Charlie Chan Megapack

      The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack

      The Detective Megapack

      The Father Brown Megapack

      The Jacques Futrelle Megapack

      The Mystery Megapack

      The Penny Parker Megapack

      The Pulp Fiction Megapack

      The Victorian Mystery Megapack

      The Wilkie Collins Megapack

      GENERAL INTEREST

      The Adventure Megapack

      The Baseball Megapack

      The Cat Megapack

      The Second Cat Megapack

      The Dog Megapack

      The Christmas Megapack

      The Second Christmas Megapack

      The Classic American Short Stories Megapack

      The Classic Humor Megapack

      The Military Megapack

      SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR

      The Achmed Abdullah Megapack

      The Edward Bellamy Megapack

      The E.F. Benson Megapack

      The