Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 06 March 1898

A portal to the strange and sentimental world of 1898 popular fiction, this issue of The Black Cat delivers five tales that range from Gothic chill to wartime tenderness. Joanna E. Wood unravels a diamond mystery wrapped in spiritual mystery. Kate Woodbridge Michaelis offers a quiet meditation on time and waiting. Herbert W. Crotzer sends an explorer trembling before an ancient curse. Annie T. Rotter captures lovers separated by war, their hearts beating through letters. And Richard Stillman Powell whisks a poor Chinese boy into a masquerade of magic and misadventure. The magazine that once published unnamed writers alongside rising stars of American letters proves that even in the fading Victorian era, the appetite for the uncanny, the romantic, and the adventurous remained undiminished. For readers who wonder what our great-grandparents read under gaslight.