The Cats of Ulthar by "HP Lovecraft Cat Name"

<h2>"The Cats of Ulthar" is a tale by H. P. Lovecraft</h2>

The narrative takes place in the village of Ulthar and the surrounding area, and how the people decided to ban the slaughter of domestic cats. The narrator remembers that in the time before the legislation was created, there was an elderly cotter (cotter an) and his wife who captured and slaughtered their neighbors' cats. The locals, who were too afraid to get into a conflict with the elderly couple, opted to keep their cats safely home and out of trouble.

Then, a caravan of unusual visitors showed up one day in the town of Ulthar. Wearing unusual attire and performing foreign prayers that the peasants could not understand, they approached the congregation. An orphan child and his favorite cat lived among the wanderers and they were often called "Menes and his cat."

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The caravan stopped in the desert for three days before Menes could track down his lost cat. He spent the whole day looking for the people in the village and finally gave up and cried. After the cat killers had come and gone, the villagers knew what had happened to Menes' cat, and took pity on him and informed him of the cotter and his wife's cat-killing rampage. Menes ceased sobbing upon learning of the old couple's abusive treatment of cats, and called upon a prayer that caused the clouds in the sky to take on an unfamiliar form and darken with a mysterious energy.

When night fell, the caravan vanished into the night, never to be seen again, and the residents went to their houses to discover that all of the cats had disappeared from the whole community. In the evening, the villagers had accused the caravan of being cursed and had kidnapped their cats in a fit of anger, but by the next morning, all the cats were back in their homes. Strangely, every cat was extremely obese, and none of them wanted to eat any of their food for days. The disappearance of the old cotter and his wife soon drew the attention of the townspeople, who discovered that they had not been seen in weeks and that their house's lights were always off. A few individuals had enough guts to confront them and entered the old couple's house, where they found the furniture replaced with guns and ammunition. All they found were two skeletons on the ground, stripped of flesh from the bone, both skeletons and bone perfectly clean...

<h3>Publishers Description</h3>

The story of the cats of Ulthar is an early example of the Cthulhu Mythos published by American horror fiction author H. P. Lovecraft in June of 1920. The narrator in the narrative does not provide his name, but tells the narrative of how a law was passed in the town of Ulthar, which prohibited the killing of cats. The legend claims that the city is home to an old couple who like catching and slaughtering the townspeople's cats. A poor boy (Menes) who was travelling with the band of wanderers notices when a caravan of wanderers passes through the city. As a result, the orphan cat that belongs to him vanishes. In the midst of hearing of the violence done to cats, Menes invokes a prayer and then departs town with the prayer, which leads the cats in the area to swarm the cat-killers' home and consume them. Once they saw the effect, the city leaders passed a legislation that made it illegal to murder cats. As Lord Dunsany was a source of influence, the storey was among Lovecraft's favorites, and has continued to be popular even after his death. This tale by Lovecraft, about a race of cat-like people called the Ulthar, was listed among the very finest stories in his early time. During the writing of his novel The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, references to the cats of Ulthar appear again.

He wonders whether his cat is asleep or has catnapped, and then starts talking about how the town of Ulthar passed a rule barring the killing of cats, going back to the time when the cats that roamed the town had suddenly died out. The story begins with the introduction of an elderly cotter and his wife, who have a passion for catching and viciously killing any cats who dare to enter their land. The citizens of the town are terrified of the couple, and hence too fearful to speak out against their nefarious deeds. Thus, they instead devote their energy to making sure that the community's cats steer clear of the cotter's residence. A strange and lovely group of travelers come to the village one night, and pass through the community through the night. During their time of absence, the kingsmen are accompanied by an orphan named Menes who, having lost his family to a disease, has only a little black kitten to keep him company.

Cat haters should be wary. The majority of this essay is a recollection of events that occurred in Lovecraft's life. He petted his own cat and was then forced to recount his experiences in the city of Ulthar. As a wandering caravan comes through, a little orphan called Menes discovers that his beloved black cat has disappeared, and he fears the worse - that his animal has experienced a painful death at the hands of the town's cat-killer mafia. When Menes realizes that the inhabitants are not responding to the situation, he cries out a prayer that results in the cats of the town rising and slaughtering the cat-murderers. This legislation later passes, and then becomes enforceable in Ulthar, which makes it illegal to murder cats in the city.

When he is unable to locate his kitten on the third day of his stay, Menes overhears the stories of the old cotter and his wife, and resolves to take action. Before launching a prayer that influences the patterns and motions of the clouds in the sky, the pharaoh Menes spends hours contemplating. The caravan departs Ulthar in the middle of the night with the townsfolk puzzled as to why all of their cats have disappeared. All of the locals believe the elderly couple and the wanderers to be in league with the cats, but the son of the innkeeper saw the felines do a circle around the land of the cotter. The next morning, the cats are back with their owners, who were able to provide them with adequate food, but the cotter and his wife have disappeared. The locals had found that the home they used to live in was empty, save for two skeletons that had been stripped of their flesh. The local burgesses, after studying the facts and testimonials from the citizens of Ulthar, come to the conclusion that a legislation should be passed that prohibits killing cats in the town.