''Something About Cats and Other Pieces'' is a collection of

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ...

, horror and

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

and

essays An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal ...

by American author H. P. Lovecraft. 2,995 copies were released in

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

and was the fourth collection of Lovecraft's work published by

Arkham House Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had pr ...

. The stories for this volume were selected by

August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the ...

''Something About Cats and Other Pieces'' contains the following tales: # "A Prefatory Note" by

# "

The Invisible Monster ''The Invisible Monster'' is a 1950 Republic film serial, starring Richard Webb and Aline Towne. Plot A would-be dictator and scientist, known only as ''The Phantom Ruler'', has developed a formula which, when sprayed on some solid object, rende ...

" by

Sonia Greene Sonia Haft Greene Lovecraft Davis (March 16, 1883 – December 26, 1972) was an American one-time pulp fiction writer and amateur publisher, businesswoman and milliner who bankrolled several fanzines in the early twentieth century. She is noted ...

# " Four O'Clock" by

# "The Horror in the Burying Ground" by

Hazel Heald Hazel Heald (April 6, 1896February 4, 1961) was a pulp fiction writer, who lived in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is perhaps best known for collaborating with American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Biography Heald was born the daughter ...

# "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro # "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro # "Satan's Servants" by

Robert Bloch Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small ...

. Note: This tale is sometime listed as 'revised' by Lovecraft, as indeed, it was presented here. However, while Lovecraft lent advice on this early tale of Bloch's (which was first written 1935) he does not appear to have written any prose in the story.S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (eds). ''An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia''. Greenwood Press, 2001, p. 22. Lovecraft's notes amounting to a page and half of comments and suggestions are printed here as an appendix. # "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 ''The Shadow over Innsmouth'' is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared ...

" # "Discarded Draught of

" # "Notes for

At the Mountains of Madness ''At the Mountains of Madness'' is a science fiction-horror novella by American author 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 ori ...

" # "Notes for

The Shadow Out of Time ''The Shadow Out of Time'' is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of ''Astounding Stories''. The story describes time and ...

" # "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

(as by Sonia H. Davis) # "Lovecraft's Sensitivity" by

# "Lovecraft's Conservative" by

# "The Man Who Was Lovecraft" by

E. Hoffmann Price Edgar Hoffmann Price (July 3, 1898 – June 18, 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction (he was a self-titled "fictioneer") for the pulp magazine marketplace."Price, E. Hoffmann" in Server Lee. ''Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers''. ...

# "A Literary Copernicus" by Fritz Leiber, Jr. # "Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight" by

# "HPL" by Vincent Starrett

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