Something About Cats and Other Pieces is an anthology of works by and about the late American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Overview[]
Including short fiction, essays, poetry, artwork by Lovecraft, as well as an assortment of other pieces on Lovecraft by those who knew him, Something About Cats and Other Pieces was published by Arkham House in a limited series of 2995 copies in 1949. It was edited by Lovecraft's friend and literary champion August Derleth, with cover art supplied by Ronald Clyne.
Contents[]
- A Prefatory Note by August Derleth
- "Something About Cats" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- "The Invisible Monster" Sonia Greene and H. P. Lovecraft
- "Four O'Clock" by Sonia Greene and H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Last Test" Adolphe de Castro and H. P. Lovecraft
- Design for My Gravestone artwork by H. P. Lovecraft
- Being from At the Mountains of Madness artwork by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro and H. P. Lovecraft
- "Satan's Servants" by Robert Bloch
- "Notes and Commentary (Satan's Servants)" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- "The Despised Pastoral" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- "Time and Space" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- "Merlinus Redivivus" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- "At the Root" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- "The Materialist Today" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- "Vermont: A First Impression" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- "The Battle That Ended a Century: (MS. Found in a Time Machine)" by R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft
- "Notes for "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"" by H. P. Lovecraft [non-fiction]
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (map) artwork by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Discarded Draught of "The Shadow over Innsmouth"" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Notes for "At the Mountains of Madness"" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Notes for "The Shadow Out of Time"" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "August" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Phaeton" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Death" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "To the American Flag" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "To a Youth" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "My Favorite Character" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "To Templeton and Mount Monadnock" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The House" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The City" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Poe-et's Nightmare: A Fable" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Sir Thomas Tryout" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Lament for the Vanished Spider" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "A Memoir of Lovecraft" by Rheinhart Kleiner [non-fiction]
- "Howard Phillips Lovecraft" by Samuel Loveman [non-fiction]
- "Lovecraft as I Knew Him" by Sonia Greene [as Sonia H. Davis, non-fiction]
- "Lovecraft's Sensitivity" by August Derleth [non-fiction]
- "Lovecraft's "Conservative"" by August Derleth [non-fiction]
- "The Man Who Was Lovecraft" by E. Hoffmann Price [non-fiction]
- "A Literary Copernicus" by Fritz Leiber [as Fritz Leiber, Jr., non-fiction]
- "Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight" by August Derleth
- "HPL" by Vincent Starrett