Fiendish Felines

Twisted Tales of Uncanny Cats
Dark tales of creepy cats by literary giants including Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, as well as weird tales from the likes of Dorothy L Sayers, EF Benson and Algernon Blackwood.

As it came closer Dick felt that shuddering faintness, which often affected him in the presence of cats, come over him, and he stamped and clapped his hands. At this it turned tail quickly: a sort of dark shadow streaked the garden-wall for a moment, and it vanished.

A mother cat takes revenge for the death of its kitten, a ferocious feline creeps into a princess’s bedchamber at night to drain her blood, a young woman grows whiskers beneath the light of a full moon and frolics on the lawn.

Aloof and haughty, slinking and sometimes sinister, cats are a mainstay of weird fiction for good reason: for all that we love them, they’re unknowable, unpredictable and a little uncanny. A