“Sylvia Townsend Warner was one of our finest writers.” – Neil Gaiman
Following the success of
Kingdoms of Elfin
in October 2018, this collection includes the remaining four Elfin stories along with the remarkable forgotten tales of
The Cat’s Cradle Book
, eighty years after its first publication.
The twenty-three stories in
Of Cats and Elfins
encompass scholarship, black humor, the Gothic, and the bizarrely anthropomorphic cats of
, which reflect Warner’s preoccupation with the dark forces at large in Europe in the later 1930s. Warner mixes fables and myths with storytelling traditions old and new to express her unease with modern society, and its cruelties and injustices.
A new selection of Warner’s remaining fantasy short stories, collected for a new generation of fantasy enthusiasts and Warner fans.