The King of the Cats

Versions of The King of the Cats include:

• "Letter XXXIX", William Combe, Letters of the Late Lord Lyttleton (1807)
• "a story told by M. G. Lewis", Mary Shelley, "On Ghosts" (1824)
• "The King of the Cats", John Dunlop, Poems on Several Occasions from 1793 to 1816 (ed. John Colin Dunlop, 1836)
• "Ghost Story No. IV", M. G. Lewis, recorded by P. B. Shelley in Journal at Geneva (including Ghost Stories) and on Return to England, 1816 (ed. Mary Shelley, 1840)
• "Dildrum, King of the Cats", D. C. (1860)
• "Doldrum, King of the Cats", Pusseyite & K., Notes and Queries Series 2, Volume 11, January 12 (1861)
• "The King of the Cats", C. S. Burne, "Two Folk-Tales from Herefordshire" in The Folk-Lore Journal Volume 2 (1884)
• "The King o' the Cats", Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales (1894)

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Similar stories include:

• "Northumberland Tradition", P. P., Notes and Queries. Series 1, Volume 6, July 24, 1852.
• "Colman Grey", Thomas Q. Couch, "The Folk Lore of a Cornish Village" in Notes and Queries. Series 1, Volume 11, May 26, 1855.