Uploaded May 7, 1997 -- Updated May 7, 1997
Dell Publishing
Here is the list of stories in this anthology. If you have any comments or reviews, send them to jbailey@sff.net. Please indicate which publication and/or story you're referring to in the subject line, and try to keep comments for different stories separate in you letters so I can place them properly.
"No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be" by A.R.
Morlan
"Marigold Outlet" by Nancy Kress
[3/7/97]
"White Rook, Black Pawn" by Susan Wade
"Best Friends" by Gahan Wilson
"Skin Deep" by Nicholas Royle
"Homage to Custom" by Kathe Koja and Barry
N. Malzberg
"The Five" by Douglas Clegg
"The Man Who Did Cats Harm" by Michael
Cadnum
"Not Waving" by Michael Marshall Smith
"Ruski" by William S. Burroughs
"Flattened Fauna Poem #37: Cats" by
Jane Yolen
"Of a Cat, But Her Skin" by Storm Constantine
"Walled" by Lucy Taylor
"The Cat From Hell" by Stephen King [3/7/97]
"Catch" by Ray Vukcevich
"Humane Society" by Steven Spruill
"Scratch" by Joel Lane
"Nobody Knows My Name" by Joyce Carol
Oates
"Thank You For That" by Harvey Jacobs
"To Destroy Rats" by Martha Soukup
"I Gatti di Roma" by Sarah Clemens
"Incidental Cats" by Nina Kiriki
Hoffman
"Flowers for Faces, Thorns for Feet" by
Tanith Lee
Miscellaneous Comments (on the book as a whole, introductions, etc.)
Nothing yet. top of page
Mark Stackpole: 3/7/97
If you thought Kress's latest novel _Beggars Ride_ was downbeat wait untill you get a load of this. A mother and her young son are escaping from an abusive husband and seek refuge in a secret shelter for battered women -- the Marigold Outlet of the title. However Mom's relationship with Dad turns out to be much more twisted than at first glance, and is particularly horrific for the little boy. How the son escapes from this conflict is both cruel and devastating.
As a side note, for a theme anthology on cat horror, kitties don't factor very much into this story. All the fantastic cat elements could have been removed and "Marigold Outlet" would not have been diminished as a story one bit.
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Mark Stackpole: 3/7/97
One of the few unreprinted S. King stories is now reprinted: A very minor story about a killer cat. I believe that Cat from Hell was first printed as part of a "complete the story" contest, where Steve provided the beginning and then readers supplied an ending. That break in the story is very clear, and King's own ending is the last resort of a horror writer's bag of tricks: the Gross-out.
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
Nothing yet. top of page
3936