The Cats of River Street

"The Cats of River Street (1925)" is a short story by Caitlin R. Kiernan that first appeared in the July 2014 issue of Sirenia Digest (#102).
==Synopsis==
The story presents vignettes of several human residents of Innsmouth, each of whom has found some way to ignore the deep ones' control of the town. Each human has one or more cats they take care of--cats that secretly play a crucial role in keeping the aquatic horrors of Innsmouth Harbour from invading the land.
== Publication History ==
The story was reprinted in the anthologies Innsmouth Nightmares  (PS Publishing, 2015) and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 (Prime Books, 2015). It also appeared in Kiernan's collections The Dinosaur Tourist (Subterranean Press, 2018) and Houses Under the Sea: Mythos Tales (Centipede Press, 2018).Internet Speculative Fiction Database, "Title: The Cats of River Street (1925)."
== References ==
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Caitlin R. Kiernan works