Feline fanciers and sci-fi fans will revel in this topnotch collection of forty previously released short stories that run the gambit from bittersweet to frightening while just skirting the anthropomorphic pitfalls that seem an inherent part of cat literature. “The Price” by Neil Gaiman is a haunting tale of a special black cat that protects his family against the Devil but at a terrible cost.
From Peter S. Beagle comes a lighthearted story about a mouse who dared ask questions and went out in search of answers in “Gordon, The Self-Made Cat.” Stephen King serves up an interesting spook story of tigers and carnival life in “Night of the Tiger.” Childhood fear takes a different turn in Daniel Wynn Barber’s “Tiger in the Snow” while A.R. Morlan’s touching “No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be…” recounts an artist’s life brought to a close while saying goodbye to his girls and fulfilling a dream. The different directions and the neatly developed storylines set this collection above the usual formula offerings.
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