11. Cats And Dogs
12. The Beast in the Cave
13. Celephais
14. The Challenge from Beyond
15. The Crawling Chaos
16. The Evil Clergyman
17. The Colour Out of Space
18. Cool Air
19. The Call of Cthulhu
20. Dagon
Cats And Dogs
by H. P. Lovecraft
Written November 23, 1926
Published in Something About Cats and Other Pieces, Arkham House, 1949
Being told of the cat-and-dog fight about to occur in your literary club,
I cannot resist contributing a few Thomastic yowls and sibilants upon my
side of the dispute, though conscious that the word of a venerable
ex-member can scarcely have much weight against the brilliancy of such
still active adherents as may bark upon the other side. Aware of my
ineptitude at argument, a valued correspondent has supplied me with the
records of a similar controversy in the New York Tribune, in which Mr.
Carl van Doran is on my side and Mr. Albert Payson Terhune on that of the
canine tribe. From this I would be glad to plagiarise such data as I need;
but my friend, with genuinely Machiavellian subtlety, has furnished me
with only a part of the feline section whilst submitting the doggish brief
in full. No doubt he imagines that this arrangement, in view of my own
emphatic bias, makes for something like ultimate fairness; but for me it
is exceedingly inconvenient, since it will force me to be more or less
original in several parts of the ensuing remarks.
Between dogs and cats my degree of choice is so great that it would never
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