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The Black Cat [v25 #1, October 1919] (15¢, 48pp+, standard, cover photo) Dated November inside. 3 · Zion Steps Out · Earl G. Curtis · ss 9 · Anastasia Boorakes—Spartan · Ioannes Merkures · ss 18 · Mother Necessity · James Henry Thompson · ss 26 · Ethics a la Mode · Edwin Dial Jorgerson · ss 32 · The Busting of Jim · Louis Schneider · ss 38 · “I’m a Democrat” · Ramsey Benson · ss

The Black Cat [v25 #2, November 1919] (15¢, 48pp+, standard, cover photo) 3 · Meet Orders · Sylvester Williams · ss 10 · The Fortunes of Artemus · Madeline Sharps Buchanan · ss 19 · Jimmy’s Souvenirs · F. M. Pumphrey · ss 24 · The Booze Artist · Walter Vogdes · ss 31 · The Shark · John Fleming Wilson · ss The Black Cat Dec 1913 34 · The Billet Doux [Henry] · Anna Brownell Dunaway · ss 39 · One Night in St. Andrews · Hapsburg Liebe · ss

The Black Cat [v25 #3, December 1919] (20¢, 160pp+, standard) 9 · High-Hat · Frank Broyles Parden · ss 19 · Compliments of Miss Marshall · R. A. Farrelly · ss 29 · On Approval · Ramsey Benson · ss 36 · One Night at Pap’s · Ivie A. MacCarthy · ss The Black Cat Jul 1915 43 · The Roundabout Road · Emmet F. Harte · ss The Black Cat Sep 1915 50 · The Awakening of Eof Tanner · Annie Dyer Nunn · ss 57 · No Salvage · Campbell MacCulloch · ss The Black Cat Mar 1914 68 · The Good News · Frank Gillooly · ss 77 · Partners in Romance · Jean Mahan Plank · ss 83 · The Revolution · Horatio Winslow · ss (r) 91 · Jute Bugs · E. O. James · ss 98 · Processional · Ramsey Benson · ss 104 · The Eleventh Floor · Milton Clous Barnes · ss 109 · When San Gavino Fell · D. E. Arnest · ss The Black Cat Mar 1914 114 · The Blind Goddess Nods · David A. Wasson · ss The Black Cat May 1914 121 · The Psychological Crime · DeLysle Ferree Cass · ss 129 · The Wooing of Sadie · Joseph Mackie · ss The Black Cat Mar 1916 134 · Before the “Amen” · Charles F. Oursler · vi The Black Cat May 1913 136 · Little Dog Puts One Over [Little Dog] · Frederick J. Jackson · ss 146 · The Cutover · Eugene Lamar · ss The Black Cat Jan 1915

The Black Cat [v25 #3, January 1920] This issue was skipped due to a printer’s strike.

The Black Cat [v25 #4, February 1920] (20¢, 144pp+, standard) 9 · The Mole · Henry Leverage · ss 15 · Old Doc · Herman Howard Matteson · ss 22 · Asking a How · Grantland Rice · pm New York Herald Tribune 23 · In Violation of His Oath · William Hamilton Osborne · ss 32 · Chakiton—First Stop · Ida M. Evans · ss The Black Cat Oct 1912 37 · The Devil’s Glue · James Francis Dwyer · ss The Black Cat Apr 1911 43 · The Twinned Pearl · George J. Brenn · ss 52 · Where the Lines Meet · Frank X. Finnegan · ss The Black Cat Oct 1904 58 · Amos Hopstone · Ellis Parker Butler · ss The Black Cat Jan 1912 65 · An Eye for a Tooth · Albert W. Tolman · ss The Black Cat Jun 1916 72 · The Reformation of Mort Harley · Michael Gross · ss 83 · Suspended Animation · William Dudley Pelley · ss The Black Cat May 1916 88 · New Table for Liquid Measure · Don Marquis · hu 89 · The Heel of Mammon · Will Sebelle · ss 95 · Dear Deer · George Allan England · ss 101 · A Ticket Home · Estelle Aubrey Brown · ss 106 · You’re In or You’re Out · Herman Howard Matteson · ss 113 · Wheeny Shifts the Climax · Louis Schneider · ss The Black Cat Aug 1916 118 · The Man from Indiana · Merden Law · ss The Black Cat Aug 1916 124 · Thirty Seconds of Darkness [DeLancey and T.B.] · Harry Stephen Keeler · ss The Black Cat May 1916 134 · Arguing for New York · Homer Croy · ss The Black Cat Jul 1911

The Black Cat [v25 #5, March 1920] (20¢, 128pp+, standard, cover by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter) 3 · When the Old Game Calls · Frank X. Finnegan · ss 13 · Posterity vs. Ames Bennett · Frank R. Adams · ss The Black Cat Dec 1915 21 · The Reapers · Annie Batterman Lindsay · ss The Black Cat Sep 1896 26 · The Dead-Beats · Elwood Brown · ss 35 · Donovan’s Day · Annie Batterman Lindsay · ss The Black Cat Apr 1913 41 · Hilligoss · Louis St. John · ss The Black Cat Apr 1913 47 · The Declaration of Independance at Sunny Mount · Roger Fison · ss The Black Cat Dec 1914 53 · The Eyes of Conscience · Roy Turnbull · ss The Black Cat Jul 1916 56 · At Tenacity Jack’s · Marion Hill · ss The Black Cat Feb 1913 66 · The Girl God Made for Jones · Mary Carolyn Davies · ss The Black Cat May 1913 71 · The Vase of the Mikado · A. Ernest B. Lane · ss The Black Cat Dec 1900 79 · The Purse · Michael White · vi The Black Cat May 1916 82 · Key, Ring and Sheriff · Raymond E. Lawrence · ss The Black Cat Sep 1916 87 · Co-op Co-operates · Hartley Edgington · ss The Black Cat Nov 1915 93 · A Dictionary in the Desert · Robert C. McElravy · ss The Black Cat Sep 1912 96 · The Fossil · Crittenden Marriott · ss The Black Cat Aug 1911 99 · The King of the Subdivision · James O’Shaughnessy · ss The Black Cat Jun 1901 108 · The Epic of Cleo · Winona Godfrey · ss The Black Cat Dec 1911 113 · The Return of Sandy · Roy Freeman Munger · ss The Black Cat May 1916 117 · The Missionary Snake · William Merriam Rouse · ss The Black Cat Mar 1916 122 · The Carbon Copy · Arthur Leeds · vi The Black Cat Apr 1916

The Black Cat [v25 #6, April 1920] (20¢, 128pp+, standard) 3 · Sea Beef · Henry Leverage · ss 13 · Nine Points of the Law · Elwood Brown · ss The Black Cat Jan 1917 20 · Twenty-Five Dollars to Go · Leo Noble Burnett · ss The Black Cat Jun 1915 25 · From Out the Centuries · Charles J. Sullivan · ss The Black Cat Apr 1915 32 · The Desert’s Drink · Frank Loftus · ss The Black Cat Mar 1915 36 · The Morning Only Girl · Leo Noble Burnett · ss The Black Cat Jul 1916 41 · The Backsliding of Bad-Eye · Wellington Vandiver · ss The Black Cat Aug 1915 46 · The Craven · Herman G. Seeley · ss The Black Cat May 1915; given as by Herman G. Seely. 51 · Hazard and O’Chance · Francis W. Dever · ss 56 · A Touch of Class · Thomson Burtis · ss 68 · The Posteristic Temperament · G. B. Wimsatt · ss The Black Cat Mar 1915 74 · The House of Doom · Ruth Loomis Skeen · ss 85 · An Aerial Switch-Back · Howard Dwight Smiley · ss The Black Cat Dec 1914 91 · Jilting Parmelia · Leo Noble Burnett · ss The Black Cat Aug 1915 96 · A Panglima Tragedy · Leonard Wood, Jr. · ss 101 · Conservative Sam · Henry Francis Dryden · ss The Black Cat Aug 1917 107 · The Man from Home · K. Edward Harrison · ss The Black Cat Apr 1915 110 · Run Amuck · Maude Newbegin · ss The Black Cat Jun 1916 116 · Getting Lefty · Ward Trail · ss The Black Cat Jun 1915 120 · The Circle · Harvey Fergusson · ss The Black Cat Apr 1915

The Black Cat [v25 #7, May 1920] (20¢, 128pp+, standard, cover by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter) 3 · Just Between Thieves · R. de S. Horn · ss 13 · Matches · Chesla C. Sherlock · ss 19 · Damour Blood · Helen Topping Miller · ss 27 · Thanks to the Cape Cod Finn · Charles Boardman Hawes · ss The Black Cat May 1917 34 · The Bridegroom Elect · Marion Hill · ss The Black Cat Mar 1917 41 · On Big Time · James Henry Thompson · ss 52 · Sentiment and Swine · Ramsey Benson · ss 58 · The Epic of Old Cark · Horace J. Simpson · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller Nov 13 1915 64 · The Cup on the Nail · John Matter · ss The Black Cat Aug 1917 71 · The Face in the Ice · Frederic Simpich · ss The Black Cat Feb 1915 76 · The Empty Room · C. Cleves Mackie · ss The Black Cat Sep 1914 80 · The Female of the Species · D. A. Wasson · ss The Black Cat Feb 1913 85 · The Marble Medium · Oscar Lewis · ss The Black Cat Jun 1915 89 · Passed By · Lowell Edwin Hardy · ss The Black Cat Jul 1913 94 · Getting It · Frederic R. Buckley · ss The Black Cat Feb 1917 101 · Over the Great Divide · Arthur Leeds · ss The Black Cat Jun 1914 108 · The Sacrifice · Fred H. James · ss The Black Cat May 1915 112 · Attar of Roses · Thomas Fay Walsh · ss The Black Cat Jun 1915 116 · A Cigarette—That’s All · Helena Grace Evans · ss The Black Cat Mar 1914

The Black Cat [v25 #8, June 1920] (20¢, 128pp+, standard, cover by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter) 3 · Ready Cash · Henry Leverage · ss 15 · Orchids—and a Woman · Andrew Soutar · ss The New Magazine (UK) Jun 1916 26 · The Right Eye of Cardamon · William Hamilton Osborne · ss The Black Cat Mar 1918 34 · Home Town Homage · Howard Philip Rhoades · ss The Black Cat Dec 1917 43 · The Little Maverick · Elsinore Robinson Crowell · ss The Black Cat Jul 1918 52 · Sic Semper Tyrannis · G. A. Wells · ss The Black Cat Mar 1918 60 · Carter Robb Also Ran · Louis Schneider · ss The Black Cat Aug 1918 66 · The Lost Day · Ramsey Benson · ss 72 · The Perfect Crime · James Henry Thompson · ss 81 · Tainted Money · John D. Swain · ss The Black Cat Apr 1918 87 · Putting on Arbutzoff · Weare Holbrook · ss The Black Cat Aug 1918 92 · Big Brother · John Matter · ss The Black Cat Jul 1917 102 · At Six Bells, Saturday · Herman Howard Matteson · ss The Black Cat Aug 1918 108 · Something for Nothing · Elizabeth Anderson · ss The Black Cat Mar 1917 112 · The Chink · Raymond Richards · ss The Black Cat Mar 1917 117 · Wardens of the Chaparral · Roy Lyndon Sharpe · ss The Black Cat Sep 1917

The Black Cat [v25 #9, July 1920] (20¢, 128pp+, standard) 3 · The Joss of the Golden Wheel · R. de S. Horn · ss 13 · A Question of Dress · Louise Rand Bascom · ss 21 · $.89 Worth of Devotion · James Henry Thompson · ss 28 · A Little Heap of Ashes · Edwin Heimbach · ss 35 · The Official Photographer · Herbert Forder · ss 44 · Tribulation and Calamity · Augustin W. Breeden · ss The Black Cat Aug 1918 53 · The Psychological Moment · Lee Pape · ss The Black Cat Mar 1918 61 · The Captivation of Wash Hanks · Jane Hicks · ss The Black Cat May 1919 66 · The Obituarians · Benjamin Leeming · ss 71 · Their Piece of Art · Louis Schneider · ss The Black Cat Mar 1917 76 · The Crime of Mr. Figg · Weare Holbrook · ss The Black Cat Nov 1918 80 · Triangular Finance · A. L. Crabb · ss The Black Cat Nov 1918 87 · Zeke · Horace J. Simpson · ss The Black Cat Aug 1918 93 · Good News · Jean Mahan Plank · ss The Black Cat Feb 1918 100 · The Wedding Business · Elwood Brown · ss The Black Cat Jan 1918 106 · When the Band Plays · Helen Topping Miller · ss The Black Cat Aug 1917 114 · No Other Gods Before Me · Frederick J. Jackson · ss The Black Cat Jun 1917

The Black Cat [v25 #10, August 1920] (20¢, 128pp+, standard) 1 · The Cup of Gold [Part 1 of 3] · Henry Leverage · n. 45 · The Tinker · Andrew Soutar · ss 54 · No Way but This · Jennie Harris Oliver · ss 64 · The Great Detective · Ellis Parker Butler · ss 71 · The Speed Shark · Edwin Dial Torgerson · ss 81 · The Snowball of Scandal · Clay Perry · ss 91 · Abel God · William C. Lengel · ss 99 · Unmasking Cleo · Frank X. Finnegan · ss The Black Cat Jul 1917 105 · The Rosemary of Remembrance · Margaret Dean Stevens · ss The Black Cat Nov 1917 112 · Tripe and Cats · William Merriam Rouse · ss The Black Cat Aug 1915 117 · Between the Lines · Avery Gaul · ss

The Black Cat [v25 #11, September 1920] (20¢, 128pp+, standard) 1 · Courage · Andrew Soutar · nv; not the same as the story of the same name in the April 1, 1919 issue of The Thrill Book. 23 · The Cup of Gold [Part 2 of 3] · Henry Leverage · n. 48 · A Suspicious Circumstance · William Hamilton Osborne · ss 57 · Bring Me Red Poppies · Thekla Hollingsworth Andrew · pm 58 · The Chili Picker · Henry Walbridge Dudley · ss 66 · The Day of Days · Vera C. Miller · ss 75 · A Lick of Sense · Ramsey Benson · ss 81 · The Mediator · G. A. Wells · ss 89 · Welcome to the Engineer · Frank Broyles Parden · ss 99 · Ghosts · Thekla Hollingsworth Andrew · pm 100 · Blue Gold · John Fleming Wilson · ss 108 · Camera-Eye · Frederick Sherry · ss 112 · The Diving Venus · Will H. Greenfield · ss 118 · The Family Skeleton’s Wedding Journey · Annie Fellows Johnston · ss The Black Cat May 1901

The Black Cat [v25 #12, October 1920] (20¢, 128pp+, standard, cover by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter) 25th Anniversary Issue. 3 · The Blockade Runner · Arthur Sturges Hildebrand · nv 20 · Tenderfoot Tarts · Kenneth Perkins · ss 31 · Playwife · George M. A. Cain · ss 42 · High-Grade · J. Allan Dunn · nv 64 · The Cup of Gold [Part 3 of 3] · Henry Leverage · n. 84 · The Story of the Black Cat · Anon. · ar 93 · Contributing to the Black Cat · Michael White · ar 99 · The Maplewood Speed King · Ralph E. Mooney · ss 108 · Imagination · Henry Leverage · ss 116 · Simple Simon · A. Hamilton Gibbs · ss

The Black Cat [v26 #1, January 10, 1922] (15¢, 36pp, digest) Issue not found. Need Contents

The Black Cat [v26 #2, January 25, 1922] (15¢, 36pp, digest) 1 · The Ruling Passion · Harriet Crocker LeRoy · ss 8 · The Transformation · Lolita Ann Westman · ss 15 · Piggy Piggy · Jettie Rutledge · ss 21 · A Deep Sea Dog · W. H. Holmes · ss 30 · His First Wife’s Funeral · Lena Martin-Smith · ss

The Black Cat [v26 #3, February 10, 1922] (15¢, 36pp, digest) Issue not found. Need Contents

The Black Cat [v26 #4, February 25, 1922] (15¢, 36pp, digest) 3 · The Portrait · Idwal Jones · ss 11 · Evidence · Sidney Waldo · ss 18 · Traveling Light · Harry Golden · ss 25 · Poison Gas · Alice Dyar Russell · ss 32 · Sabbath Sunshine · Ruth Kathryn Gaylord · ss

The Black Cat [v26 #5, #300, March 10, 1922] (15¢, 40pp, digest) Details supplied by Mike Ashley. 3 · The Bete-Noir of Madame Bigour · E. Niall Breene · ss 8 · Dusk · M. M. Vosburgh · ss 15 · Tea Rose · Robert E. Hewes · ss 25 · The Presence · Madeleine Ruthven · ss 33 · The Derelict · Margaret Greenwood Orr · ss

The Black Cat [v26 #6, March 25, 1922] (15¢, 36pp, digest) 4 · Her Day · Edwin Dakin · ss 12 · The Now · Elsa B. Meyerson · ss 18 · Three Score Years and Ten · George Carver · ss 27 · A Nickel’s a Nickel · Mack McCain · ss 34 · The Return · John Randolph Stidman · ss