TY - BOOK AU - Various TI - The Black Cat (Vol. I, No. 1, October 1895) AV - PS PY - 2022/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories, American -- Periodicals N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_(US_magazine); Release date is 2022-02-17; In gold time, by Roberta Littlehale -- The unturned trump, by Barnes MacGreggor -- The secret of the white castle, by Julia Magruder -- Miss Wood, stenographer, by Granville Sharpe -- Her hoodoo, by Harold Kinsabby -- In a tiger trap, by Charles Edward Barns -- The red-hot dollar, by H. D. Umbstaetter; hekula03, Brian Wilsden and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.); Originally published; United States: The Shortstory Publishing Co., 1895 N2 - "The Black Cat (Vol. I, No. 1, October 1895)" by Various is a fiction magazine launched in 1895. This pioneering publication revolutionized American short story publishing by selling for just five cents and championing unknown writers over established names. Editor Herman Umbstaetter ran story contests to discover fresh talent, launching careers of literary giants like Jack London and O. Henry. The magazine's immediate success, including selling out 100,000 copies of its first issue, made it a cultural phenomenon that transformed how American fiction reached readers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnwrzk UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67422 ER -