Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft’s interest in our fascinating felines.

The cover for The Black Cat magazine, October 1905. H.P. Lovecraft began to read this story-magazine in 1904, when he was aged about 14. The cover of each issue featured the distinctive cat configured within various graphic designs.

The idea of a big reward + a black cat may have been especially poignant to the 15 year-old Lovecraft when he picked this off the news-stands or opened a subscription copy in the morning mail. Because this edition was issued on the first year anniversary of the loss of his own beloved black cat, Trigger-ban, who had run away and been lost during the house-move of fall/autumn 1904.