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1 y separately published work icon The Black Cat (International) assertion 1895 Boston : Shortstory Publishing Company , 1895-1922 Z1869065 1895 periodical (4 issues) Described in Galactic Central as 'a very off-trail magazine which liked to publish unusual stories and featured a large amount of fantasy in its early years' The Black Cat also occasionally published science fiction stories by authors such as Frank L. Pollack, Don Mark Lemon and Harry Stephen Keeler, and horror stories such as Cleveland Moffett's 'The Mysterious Card (1896).

The magazine's first editor was Herman Umbstaetter (1851-1913), who was responsible for publishing Jack London's famous story, 'A Thousand Deaths' in the May 1899 issue. Among the other authors who contrinuted stories to the magazine were: Jack London, Rupert Hughes, Susan Glaspell, Ellis Parker Butler, Alice Hegan Rice, Holman Day, Rex Stout, Octavus Roy Cohen, Cleveland Moffett, Harry Stephen Keeler, and Frank Lillie Pollock.
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