Black Cats in Stories

Retold Americana short story about a preacher who encounters black cats that promise “Wait until Emmet comes.”

Retold Americana short story about a husband and wife who get a cat, only for the husband to hear a message and give it to the cat who becomes Queen of the Witches.

Every Spring the Old Witch's cat, Shadow, has a litter of black, green-eyed kittens that are eagerly taken home by young witches. But one Fall, just before Halloween, Shadow has a litter of one, snow-white, blue-eyed kitten. The Old Witch swears a…

The story of a violent alcoholic who tortures and kills his cat Pluto. Later on, the author is driven mad by visions of a cat that looks similar to Pluto, which haunts him.

Mr. Mistoffelees is a character in T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and its 1981 musical adaptation, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. Mistoffelees is a young black cat with magical powers that he cannot yet fully control.…

The Devil, accompanied by a retinue that includes the fast-talking, vodka-drinking, giant tomcat Behemoth, pays a visit to Soviet Moscow. There is a whirlwind of chaos that soon involves the beautiful Margarita and her beloved, a distraught writer…

A rhyming telling of a traditional fable about a man who loved his cat so much he wished her to turn into a beautiful woman.