Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 01 October 1896

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Various 1896
English
  • The house that Jack built, by Harold Donovan Hilton
  • In the garden of a villa, by R. George Smith Jr.
  • A peg-leg ghost, by Wellington Vandiver
  • How the run was stopped, by Richard Stillman Powell
  • My friend, Walker, by Geraldine Meyrick
  • In an hour, by Warwick James Price
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine.
Volume 2 starts off with the following 6 stories in the first issue:
"The house that Jack built", by Harold Donovan Hilton: a young man learns the intriguing story of an uncanny old house
"In the garden of a villa", by R. George Smith Jr.: a female lark sees her tragic love life reflected in the life of a duchess
"A peg-leg ghost", by Wellington Vandiver: strange events finally make a sceptical man believe in the supernatural
"How the run was stopped", by Richard Stillman Powell: to save the bank from bankruptcy, a clerk resorts to an ingenious ruse
"My friend, Walker", by Geraldine Meyrick: a man achieves the impossible of communicating with horses, but at an awful price
"In an hour", by Warwick James Price: in his last hour, a dying scholar muses about his life
- Summary by Sonia

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