THE WEIRD CAT EXPLORES THE ELUSIVE CONNECTION BETWEEN CATS, HUMANS, AND THE SUPERNATURAL WORLD
WordCrafts Press is pleased to announce the October 18, 2023, release date of the highly anticipated new anthology, The Weird Cat. The new project, which was edited by Katherine Kerestman and S. T. Joshi and features more than three dozen short stories, poems, and essays by classic and contemporary masters of the craft, is already generating excitement among fans and industry insiders alike. The title debuted at Number 1 on Amazon.com’s Hot New Releases in Classic Short Stories chart and at Number 1 in Hot New Releases in Classic Fiction Anthologies and Collections. The Weird Cat also claimed the Number 5 spot on the Hot New Releases in Horror Anthology category.
About The Editors:
Katherine Kerestman is the author of Lethal (PsychoToxin Press, 2023) and Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press, 2020). Her Lovecraftian and Gothic works have been featured in Black Wings VII, Penumbra, Journ-E, Spectral Realms, and The Little Book of Cursed Dolls (Media Macabre, 2023). Katherine is wild about Dark Shadows and Twin Peaks and has been seen cavorting in the graveyards of Salem on Halloween. You can keep up with her at www.creepycatlair.com.
S. T. Joshi is the author of The Weird Tale (1990), H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (1990), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). He has prepared corrected editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s work for Arkham House and annotated editions of Lovecraft’s stories for Penguin Classics. His exhaustive biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), was expanded as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010). He has edited the anthologies American Supernatural Tales (Penguin, 2007), A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Centipede Press, 2013), The Madness of Cthulhu (Titan Books, 2014), and the ongoing Black Wings series (PS Publishing, 2010f.). Joshi has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the International Horror Guild Award.
