Cats of Shadow, Claws of Darkness: Stories of Were-Cats, Ghost Cats, and Other Supernatural Felines

by Chad Arment (Editor)

Spectral felines and were-cats (including were-tigers and were-leopards) are among the furry (and sometimes deadly) creatures in this anthology. Sometimes the feline is only in the mind, but other stories have a more tangible beast. Horror, humor, and fantasy play out in these strange tales of man vs cat. The twenty-two stories included The King of the Cats (Thomas Lyttelton), Murtough Murphy's Story (Samuel Lover), The Man-Tiger (H. Wellington Vrooman), The Man at the Next Table (Robert W. Chambers), The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce), The Were-Tiger (Sir Hugh Charles Clifford), A Vendetta of the Jungle (Arthur Applin and H. Sidney Warwick), The Gray Cat (Barry Pain), A Were-Tiger (Sir William George Maxwell), Ancient Sorceries (Algernon Blackwood), Tobermory (Saki), In the Valley of the Sorceress (Sax Rohmer), The Cats of Ulthar (H. P. Lovecraft), The Black Cat (William J. Wintle), The Empty Sleeve (Algernon Blackwood), The Tiger (A. E. Coppard), The Were-Tiger (Lyman Bryson), The Leopard Woman (Edith Ross), Tiger (Bassett Morgan), Fangs of Vengeance (Nathan Hindin), Toean Matjan (Vennette Herron), Spotted Satan (Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price). See CoachwhipBooks.com for additional thematic anthologies of classic horror, supernatural, science fiction, and fantasy short stories.

372 pages, Paperback

First published October 26, 2012

About the author

Two of the first "real" authors I read when I was young were Alistair MacLean and Rex Stout, and those remain favorites. Today, for personal reading, there are several mystery authors I enjoy; for non-fiction, I jump around a bit depending on what I'm interested in. (At the moment, suiseki and dragonflies, go figure.)
In 2004, I self-published my first print-on-demand book, on cryptozoology. Since then, I've added several other of my own titles, a fair number by other authors, and a whole lot of reprints (both public domain and licensed). Titles can be seen at www.coachwhipbooks.com.
I currently live in Ohio.