Black Cat Weekly #73

Chapter 2

“Murder On My Mind” is copyright © 2023 by Laird Long and appears here for the first time.

“The Play’s the Thing” is copyright © 2022 by Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

“In Plain Sight” is copyright © 2013 by Diana Deverell. Originally published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, November 2013. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery MagazineThe Case of Oscar Slater, by Arthur Conan Doyle, was originally published in 1912.

The Case of Oscar SlaterWhere’s Emily, by Carolyn Wells, was originally published in 1927.

Where’s Emily“The Pluviophile” is copyright © 2019 by Nicole Givens Kurtz. Originally published in Sister of the Wild Sage: A Weird Wetern Collection. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Sister of the Wild Sage: A Weird Wetern Collection“A Rat for a Friend” is copyright © 1986 by Richard Wilson. Originally published as a limited edition booklet by Chris Drumm. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

“Referent,” by Ray Bradbury, was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1948,

under the pseudonym “Brett Sterling.”

Thrilling Wonder Stories

“The Seven Temporary Moons,” by Murray Leinster, was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1948, as by “William Fitzgerald.”

Thrilling Wonder StoriesHellflower, by George O. Smith, originally appeared in 1953.

Hellflower