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The Cats of Ulthar

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58: 227:. The caravan leaves Ulthar that night, shortly before the townspeople notice that all of their cats have gone missing. The townspeople suspect both the old couple and the wanderers, but the innkeeper's son Atal witnesses the felines circling the property of the cotter. The next morning, the cats have returned to their owners well-fed, but the cotter and his wife have vanished. When the townspeople explore their abandoned house, they discover nothing more than two skeletons that have been picked clean. The local 240: 339:, however, comments that "The Cats of Ulthar" resembles Dunsany in "mood and execution" only and that " has no obvious parallels in any Dunsany story". Schweitzer refers to the prose as "restrained", and notes that, unlike Lovecraft, Dunsany preferred dogs and would have been unlikely to have written such an enthusiastic tribute. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi disagrees, claiming that "his tale owes more to Dunsany than many of his other 'Dunsanian' fantasies". 1855: 365:. Here, as in others of Lovecraft's later tales, cats embody the attraction to horror while, unlike the human protagonists, "never pursuing horror to the point of becoming horrible themselves". The text of "The Cats of Ulthar", like many of Lovecraft's works, has fallen into the public domain and can be accessed in several compilations of the author's work as well as on the Internet. 809: 335:"The Cats of Ulthar" was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's, who was an ardent cat lover. A number of contemporary critics, as well as Lovecraft himself, consider the story to be the best of all his Dunsanian tales. Other critics have noted that the story is one of Lovecraft's most famous tales that fits both the Dunsanian and the "weird fantasy" style. Literary critic 42: 162:
the city, the kitten of an orphan (Menes) traveling with the band disappears. Upon hearing of the couple's violent acts towards cats, Menes invokes a prayer before leaving town that causes the local felines to swarm the cat-killers' house and devour them. Upon witnessing the result, the local politicians pass a law forbidding the killing of cats.
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in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. As the narrative goes, the city is home to an old couple who enjoy capturing and killing the townspeople's cats. When a caravan of wanderers passes through
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and attempted to mimic his style. Among the literary aspects that Lovecraft borrows are the "vengeance motif" and the "ponderous tone" of Dunsany. Dunsany's influence is evident on the surface of the text as well: wanderers, similar to the ones portrayed in "The Cats of Ulthar", appear in Dunsany's
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and his wife, who delight in trapping and violently killing any cats who venture onto their property. The people of the town are too afraid of the couple to speak against these acts, so they instead focus their efforts on keeping their felines from approaching the cotter's house. One night, a
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visits the city 300 years after the events in "The Cats of Ulthar", when the town is still heavily populated by felines. Carter is later able to summon the cats of Ulthar to his aid. Cats would be used in what scholar Katharine M. Rogers calls "a more original way" in Lovecraft's 1923 work
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The character of Atal, the innkeeper's son who witnesses the cats of Ulthar circling the antagonists' cottage, would later appear in Lovecraft's
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Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, has been cited as a major influence on both this tale and other of Lovecraft's works
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to be "one of his best and most significant". "The Cats of Ulthar" was first published in the literary journal
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in May 1920 and wrote "The Cats of Ulthar" on June 15, 1920, five months after completing his previous tale,
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in February 1926 and 1933, as well as being privately reprinted in a forty two-copy run in December 1935.
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Prior to "The Cats of Ulthar", Lovecraft had penned several tales in the style of Lord Dunsany, including
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of travelers from a distant land arrives and passes through the village. They bring with them an
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that affects the shapes and movements of the clouds in the sky, granting all the cats of Ulthar
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The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield
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The Lovecraft Necronomicon Primer: A Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos
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in November 1920 and now resides in the public domain.
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
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