The King of the Cats

Versions of The King of the Cats include:

• "Letter XXXIX", in Letters of the Late Lord Lyttleton (1807), edited by William Combe
• "a story told by M. G. Lewis", part of "On Ghosts" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in The London Magazine (1824)
• "The King of the Cats", in Poems on Several Occasions from 1793 to 1816 (1836), by John Dunlop, edited by John Colin Dunlop
• "Ghost Story No. IV", in The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840), edited by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• "Dildrum, King of the Cats" (1860), by D. C. (a contributor to Notes and Queries)
• "Doldrum, King of the Cats", in Notes and Queries Series 2, Volume 11, January 12 (1861) [Responses provided by Pusseyite & K.]
• "The King of the Cats", part of "Two Folk-Tales from Herefordshire" by Charlotte Sophia Burne in The Folk-Lore Journal, Volume 2 (1884)
• "The King o' the Cats", in More English Fairy Tales (1894), edited by Joseph Jacobs

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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.