Vintage poster The Black Cat, March ,1896

Introduction

As a lover of vintage posters, I can spend hours marvelling at all those beautiful drawings and use of colour on the posters. I also find it interesting to learn more about the creation of such a poster, its history and who were the creators. Today, I am going to talk about the vintage poster The Black Cat. Read along?

The Black Cat

The Black Cat is a very old American literary magazine. You bought this magazine for 5 cents. The magazine is from 1895 and was available until 1922. It was published in Boston. The magazine consisted of short stories written by various literary writers, including Rupert Hughes, Susan Glaspell, Alice Hegan Rice. It also occasionally published science fiction and horror stories by writers Frank L. Pollack, Harry Stephen Keeler, among others.

Well-known writer Henry Miller wrote adventure stories in the last years of the magazine. The magazine was set up by editor Herman Umbstaetter. He was editor until 1913. In a tragic accident, Herman was killed while hunting and died of a gunshot wound. His wife Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter was the magazines illustrator and did so until 1920. The most famous story published was A Thousand Deaths, written by writer Jack London. This story appeared in the May 1899 issue.

Vintage poster The Black Cat March 1896

On the front cover of the magazine, we see a cover illustration of a black cat and a rabbit playing the banjo together.

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The Black Cat, March, 1986 AudioBook

You can listen to the magazine in audiobook form below. No less than 2 hours of listening pleasure!