{"id":28401,"date":"2019-07-23T05:31:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T02:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=28401"},"modified":"2019-07-23T05:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T02:31:02","slug":"kittee-tuesday-wains-cats-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/23\/kittee-tuesday-wains-cats-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittee Tuesday: Wain’s Cats Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s interest in our fascinating felines.<\/p>\n

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Louis Wain, “The Cats’ Party”. Unknown date, but perhaps 20 years before “Ulthar”. Original was perhaps in colour?<\/p>\n

Early in Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book<\/em>, item #11…<\/p>\n

   “Odd nocturnal ritual. Beasts dance and march to musick.”<\/p>\n

Later used in “Ulthar”, minus the musick…<\/p>\n

   “… little Atal, the innkeeper\u2019s son, vowed that he had at twilight seen all the cats of Ulthar in that accursed yard under the trees, pacing very slowly and solemnly in a circle around the cottage, two abreast, as if in performance of some unheard-of rite of beasts.” — H.P. Lovecraft, “The Cats of Ulthar”.<\/p>\n

Wain was enormously popular and there was a 1-shilling Louis Wain’s Annual<\/em> each Christmas in Great Britain from 1901 (Lovecraft aged 11) onward, interestingly. And Lovecraft was of course a great cat-lover. Though, so far as I’m aware, Lovecraft never mentions Wain.<\/p>\n

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Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s interest in our fascinating felines. Louis Wain, “The Cats’ Party”. Unknown date, but perhaps 20 years before …<\/p>\n

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