Then he sat on his bed and laughed in a silly drunken fashion while the kitten lapped and lapped at the milk as if it would never leave off. And, in the eyes of the kitten, the dirty drunken man with his silly drunken chuckle was a messenger of infinite mercy. From A Kitten In [Open This Episode] The post A Kitten in Paradise first appeared on The Literary Catcast Podcast ..read more

“His day-dream was suddenly shattered into a thousand fragments like a lance against plate-armour. He saw the flash of a jewelled shoe-buckle as the toe of the royal shoe caught him in the ribs. He heard the royal voice raised in petulant indignation. He felt himself flying through the air and landing on the hard [Open This Episode] The post A Cat May Look At A King first appeared on The Literary Catcast Podcast ..read more

“I got for the first time a good look at the cat’s eyes peering at us. They were the first beautiful thing I ever noticed about him. They were a soft and lovely and radiant green.”  That’s a quote from The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory This episode is taken from, one [...] The post The Cat Who Came for Christmas first appeared on The Literary Catcast Podcast ..read more

“Well! Amidst all these comforts, I had but one wish, but one dream, to slip out by the half-open window, and run away on to the tiles. Caresses appeared to me insipid, the softness of my bed disgusted me, I was so fat that I felt sick, and from morn till eve I experienced the [...] The post The Paradise of Cats, written by Emile Zola, 1864 first appeared on The Literary Catcast Podcast ..read more

“The thought of the cat’s stare haunted him, and he was prey to all the heartache of parting; in leaving the cat, he had left behind wife, mother, and child.” The Fat Cat by the collaborative group known as Q. Patrick That’s a quote from The Fat Cat written in 1959 under the pen name, [...] The post The Fat Cat by Q. Patrick first appeared on The Literary Catcast Podcast ..read more

“Even when little Atal, the innkeeper’s son, vowed that he had at twilight seen all the cats of Ulthar in that accursed yard under the trees, pacing very slowly and solemnly in a circle around the cottage, two abreast, as if in performance of some unheard-of rite of beasts,” That’s a quote from The Cats [...] The post The Cats of Ulthar by Lovecraft first appeared on The Literary Catcast Podcast ..read more

“…and do you really ask us to believe, Sir Wilfred was saying, that you have discovered a means for instructing animals in the art of human speech, and that dear old Tobermory has proved your first successful pupil?” From Tobermory, written by H.H. Munro (Hector Hugo), pen name—Saki Tobermory, written in 1911, is a masterpiece [...] The post Tobermory, by Saki first appeared on The Literary Catcast Podcast ..read more