Considered one of the best short stories of Lovecraft's early period, aspects of the The Cats of Ulthar would be referenced again in the author's works The Other Gods and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

Lovecraft outlined the plot to his friend Keiner in May 1920 and wrote The Cats of Ulthar on June 15, 1920, five months after completing his previous tale, The Terrible Old Man.

Dunsany's influence is evident on the surface of the text as well: wanderers, similar to the ones portrayed in The Cats of Ulthar, appear in Dunsany's earlier tale Idle Days on the Yann.

Prior to The Cats of Ulthar, Lovecraft had penned several tales in the style of Lord Dunsany, including The White Ship, The Street, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Terrible Old Man, and The Tree.

The Cats of Ulthar was first published in the literary journal Tryout in November 1920, and later appeared in Weird Tales in February 1926 and 1933, as well as being privately reprinted in a forty two-copy run in December 1935.

The Cats of Ulthar was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's, who was an ardent cat lover.

Literary critic Darrell Schweitzer, however, comments that The Cats of Ulthar resembles Dunsany in " mood and execution " only and that " has no obvious parallels in any Dunsany story ".

Atal also appears as a priest in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath – written in 1927 but not published until 1943 – when protagonist Randolph Carter visits the city 300 years after the events in The Cats of Ulthar, when the town is populated mainly by felines.

The text of The Cats of Ulthar, like many of Lovecraft's works, has fallen into public domain and can be accessed in several compilations of the author's work as well as on the Internet.

* " The Cats of Ulthar " ( 1920 )

* In Alan Moore's " The Courtyard ", Randolph Carter is the name of a female singer who is the head of a band called the Ulthar Cats.

* The priest Atal appears as a boy and youth in two earlier tales, " The Cats of Ulthar " ( 1920 ) and " The Other Gods " ( 1933 ), respectively, which fully describe events alluded to in The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

The " Heaviside layer " is used as a symbol for heaven ( in the afterlife sense ) in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.

This reference is based on a quote found in a letter written by T. S. Eliot, whose book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats forms the basis of the musical.

In early Irish literature, Shetland is referred to as Inse Catt —" the Isles of Cats ", which may have been the pre-Norse inhabitants ' name for the islands.

Cat form is the opposite, but also builds on physical damage abilities, with gameplay mechanics similar to that of rogues, including stealth and alternatives for most of their offensive moves ; Cats excel in damage dealing so in cat form the druid assumes the melee damage dealer role.

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber.

It is the basis for the musical Cats.

Probably the best-known musical adaptation of the poems is the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.

His first recording, " Rocket 88 " with the Kings of Rhythm credited as " Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ", in 1951, is considered a possible contender for " first rock and roll song ".

As with other aspects of cryptozoology, the study of Phantom Cats is considered by mainstream science to constitute pseudoscience or fringe science.

Often the breed is referred to as the Greyhound of the cats ( source: Animal Planet television series: " Cats 101 " episode :" Colorpoint Shorthair "), because of the sleek appearance and the galloping run characteristic of the breed.

Eliot's poem " The Naming of Cats " ( 1939 ) playfully suggests that every household cat must bear ( besides whatever the family calls him ) two additional names: one an exotic appellation shared by no other cat ; the other forever unutterable because it is known only to the cat himself (" His ineffable effable / Effanineffable / Deep and inscrutable singular Name ").

* Helen of Troy is referenced in the climactic scene of The Truth About Cats & Dogs.

She is one of a few instances, along with Tom Bombadil and the Cats of Queen Berúthiel, where Tolkien does not provide a clear background for an element of his fiction.

In the United Kingdom, the tuxedo cat is sometimes known as the " Jellicle cat ", after the fictional tribe of black and white cats described by T. S. Eliot in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was first published in 1939.

In its derivative musical, Cats, the tuxedo cat is exemplified by the character of the magical Mr. Mistoffelees, who is portrayed as a stage magician wearing a lacy ruff and bow tie.

Paul claims he is in New York to meet his father, who is directing a film version of the Broadway musical Cats.

Although he is most often seen in human form, Morpheus appears as a huge black cat when speaking to the lonely cat-pilgrim of Dream of a Thousand Cats and as a cat-headed god when addressing the Egyptian feline goddess Bast.

The Bell public house in Hampton is mentioned in T S Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

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Its biggest claims to fame is that it was the childhood home of Tippi Hedren, the star of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds In Hedron's book Cats of Shambala, she wrote that she was born in New Ulm, as Lafayette didn't have a hospital.

North Greenbush is home to the southern part of the Hudson Valley Community College ( HVCC ) campus, including the Joseph L. Bruno Stadium, home to the Tri-City Valley Cats minor league baseball team ; the RPI Tech Park ; the La Salle Institute ; the New York State National Guard Armory, headquarters for the Rainbow Division ; and various Rensselaer County government institutions.

There are currently six in the works that began with the first short, Coyote Falls, that preceded the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, which was released on July 30, 2010.

Much of the Wackyland sequence was adapted and reused by Clampett for inclusion in his 1943 short Tin Pan Alley Cats.

He then devoted himself to fiction, beginning with a collection of naturalistic short stories called Im Zwielicht (" At Twilight ", 1886 ), and the novels Frau Sorge (" Dame Care ", 1887 ), Geschwister (" Siblings ", 1888 ) and Der Katzensteg (" Cats ' Bridge ", 1890 ).

Cats with radial hypoplasia ( abnormal short forelegs ) may also adopt a rabbit-like gait.

*" Travels With My Cats ," a Hugo-nominated short story by Mike Resnick first appearing in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, features a fictional travelogue of the same name.

The Ablett-led charge by the Cats, however, would ultimately fall short, with the Hawks holding on by six points in what would go down in AFL history as one of the toughest and closest Grand Finals of the modern era.

The New Britain Rock Cats were featured in an episode of ESPN's ` Mayne Street ' short comedy series.

In 2000, the Stormers fell just short of making the finals again, as they finished in fifth position, with a total of 31 points, just one point behind the Cats and Highlanders who both made it to the semi-finals, on 32 points.

These include such anime classics as Battle Angel, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Chrono Crusade, Excel Saga, Gantz, Godannar, Golden Boy, Gunsmith Cats, Macross, Nadesico, Noir, Princess Nine, Rahxephon, Slayers, Spriggan, Neon Genesis Evangelion, The Wallflower, Gamera: Guardian of the Universe with his most recently work having been on the cg-based short films Coicent and Five Number, and the tv series Infinite Stratos.

The result was Zanzibar Cats, a performance of recent short poems.

At this time, the Rock Cats were still playing at Beehive Field, which — despite some recent improvements — still fell far short of meeting the league minimums.

The Itchy & Scratchy short " Reservoir Cats " is a parody of the " ear-cutting scene " from Reservoir Dogs, where Mr. Blonde cuts off the ear of the police officer.

For the most part, StarToons provided animation exclusively for Warner Bros. shows, including the opening title sequence for Taz-Mania and animation of much of an unreleased Looney Tunes theatrical short entitled Little Go-Beep ; however, it also created the popular character Dudley the Dinosaur for the American Dental Association, the Fat Cats pilot for Cartoon Network, and some direct-to-video films for the Christian market.

Tin Pan Alley Cats is a 1943 animated short subject, directed by Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros .' Merrie Melodies series.

( short for Disembodied Omnipotent Ruler of Cats ) which can be described as a disembodied, bespectacled human head with a funny voice.