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What is it about the cat that captivates the creative imagination? No other creature has inspired so many authors to take pen to page. Mystery, horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories have all been written about cats.

From legendary editor Ellen Datlow comes Tails of Wonder and Imagination, showcasing forty cat tales by some of today's most popular authors. With uncollected stories by Stephen King, Carol Emshwiller, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Danvers, and Theodora Goss and a previously unpublished story by Susanna Clarke, plus feline-centric fiction by Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, Lucius Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates, Graham Joyce, Catherynne M. Valente, Michael Marshall Smith, and many others.

Tails of Wonder and Imagination features more than 200,000 words of stories in which cats are heroes and stories in which they're villains; tales of domestic cats, tigers, lions, mythical part-cat beings, people transformed into cats, cats transformed into people. And yes, even a few cute cats.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Ellen Datlow
• Through the Looking Glass (excerpt) - shortfiction by Lewis Carroll
• No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be... - (1996) - short story by A. R. Morlan
• The Price - (1997) - short story by Neil Gaiman
• Dark Eyes, Faith, and Devotion - (2005) - short story by Charles de Lint
• Not Waving - (1996) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• Catch - (1996) - short story by Ray Vukcevich
• The Manticore Spell - (2007) - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Catskin - (2003) - short story by Kelly Link
• Mieze Corrects an Incomplete Representation of Reality - (1993) - short story by Michaela Roessner
• Guardians - (1981) - novella by George R. R. Martin
• Life Regarded as a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats - (1991) - short story by Michael Bishop
• Gordon, the Self-Made Cat - (2005) - short story by Peter S. Beagle
• The Jaguar Hunter - (1985) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Arthur's Lion - (2006) - short story by Tanith Lee
• Pride - (2007) - short story 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) - short story by Jack Ketchum
• Puss-Cat - (2007) - short story by Reggie Oliver
• Cat in Glass - (1989) - short story 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) - short story by Stephen King
• Every Angel Is Terrifying - (1998) - short story by John Kessel
• Candia - (2000) - short story by Graham Joyce
• Mbo - (1997) - short story by Nicholas Royle
• Bean Bag Cats® - (1983) - short story by Edward Bryant
• Antiquities - (1977) - short story by John Crowley
• The Manticore's Tale - (2007) - shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente
• In Carnation - (1991) - short story by Nancy Springer
• Old Foss Is the Name of His Cat - (2008) - short story by David Sandner
• A Safe Place to Be - (2009) - short story by Carol Emshwiller
• Nine Lives to Live - (1992) - short story by Sharyn McCrumb
• Tiger Kill - (2000) - short story by Kaaron Warren
• Something Better Than Death - (2009) - short story by Lucy Sussex
• Dominion - (2008) - short story by Christine Lucas
• Tiger in the Snow - (1984) - short story by Daniel Wynn Barber
• The Dweller in High Places - short story by Susanna Clarke
• Healing Benjamin - (2009) - short story by Dennis Danvers
• The Puma - (2009) - short story by Theodora Goss

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