Our best loved friends may not even be human but animals of the moggy and mutt variety. Many of us wax lyrical about our friends in the animal world no matter the distractions available in the real and rather more demanding world of partners, children, parents and friends. So often then that when the media brings news of appalling tragedies across the globe the distress of cruelty to animals seems to gather more immediate attention. In this volume our literary wordsmiths turn their attention to tales that make our hearts wince and our emotions bleed. 1 - Stories About Cruelty to Animals - An Introduction2 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe3 - The Squaw by Bram Stoker4 - The Cats of Ulthar by H P Lovecraft5 - The Ankardyne Pew by W F Harvey6 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane7 - Strychnine for Village Dogs by Arthur Gask