Tails of Wonder and Imagination Author:Ellen Datlow (Editor) Legendary editor Ellen Datlow presents Tails of Wonder, an anthology collection of the best of the last thirty years of science fiction, fantasy and horror stories that involve cats, including other members of the feline family: lions, tigers, pumas, the sphinx and the manticore and some other imaginary cats. NOT an anthology fo... more »r catlovers -- as these are dark stories all. Cats meet dire fates at times, being thrown, throttled, starved, beaten, run over and consumed.
Contents:
Introduction (Tails of Wonder and Imagination) • essay by Ellen Datlow
Through the Looking Glass (excerpt) / shortfiction by Lewis Carroll
No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be ... (1996) / shortstory by A. R. Morlan
The Price (1997) / shortstory by Neil Gaiman
Dark Eyes, Faith, and Devotion [Newford] (2005) / shortstory by Charles de Lint
Not Waving (1996) / novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
Catch (1996) / shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
The Manticore Spell (2007) / shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
Catskin (2003) / shortstory by Kelly Link
Mieze Corrects an Incomplete Representation of Reality (1993) / shortstory by Michaela Roessner
Guardians [Haviland Tuf] (1981) / novella by George R. R. Martin
Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats (1991) / shortstory by Michael Bishop
Gordon, the Self-Made Cat (2005) / shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
The Jaguar Hunter (1985) / novelette by Lucius Shepard
Arthur's Lion (2006) / shortstory by Tanith Lee
Pride (2007) / shortstory by Mary A. Turzillo
The Burglar Takes a Cat (1994) / shortfiction by Lawrence Block
The White Cat (1987) / novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
Returns (2002) / shortstory by Jack Ketchum
Puss-Cat (2007) / shortstory by Reggie Oliver
Cat in Glass (1989) / shortstory by Nancy Etchemendy
Coyote Peyote (1994) / novelette by Carole Nelson Douglas
The Poet and the Inkmaker's Daughter (2004) / shortfiction by Elizabeth Hand
The Night of the Tiger (1978) / shortstory by Stephen King
Every Angel Is Terrifying (1998) / shortstory by John Kessel
Candia (2000) / shortstory by Graham Joyce
Mbo (1997) / shortstory by Nicholas Royle
Bean Bag Cats (1983) / shortstory by Edward Bryant
Antiquities (1977) / shortstory by John Crowley
The Manticore's Tale (2007) / shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente
In Carnation (1991) / shortstory by Nancy Springer
Old Foss Is the Name of His Cat (2008) / shortstory by David Sandner
A Safe Place to Be (2009) / shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
Nine Lives to Live (1992) / shortstory by Sharyn McCrumb
Tiger Kill (2000) / shortstory by Kaaron Warren
Something Better Than Death (2009) / shortstory by Lucy Sussex
Dominion (2008) / shortstory by Christine Lucas
Tiger in the Snow (1984) / shortstory by Daniel Wynn Barber
The Dweller in High Places (2007) / shortstory by Susanna Clarke
Healing Benjamin (2009) / shortstory by Dennis Danvers