Introduction / Ellen Datlow -- Through the looking glass (excerpt) / Lewis Carroll -- No heaven will not ever heaven be-- / A.R. Morlan -- The price / Neil Gaiman -- Dark eyes, faith, and devotion / Charles de Lint -- Not waving / Michael Marshall Smith -- Catch / Ray Vukcevich -- The Manticore spell / Jeffrey Ford -- Catskin / Kelly Link -- Mieze corrects an incomplete representation of reality / Michaela Roessner -- Guardians / George R.R. Martin -- Life regarded as a jigsaw puzzle of highly lustrous cats -- Michael Bishop -- Gordon, the self-made cat / Peter S. Beagle -- The jaguar hunter / Lucius Shepard -- Arthur's lion / Tanith Lee -- Pride / Mary A. Turzillo -- The burglar takes a cat / Lawrence Block -- The white cat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Returns / Jack Ketchum -- Puss-cat / Reggie Oliver -- Cat in glass / Nancy Etchemendy -- Coyote peyote / Carole Nelson Douglas -- The poet and the inkmaker's daughter / Elizabeth Hand -- The night of the tiger / Stephen King -- Every angel is terrifying / John Kessel -- Candia / Graham Joyce -- Mbo / Nicholas Royle -- Bean bag cats / Edward Bryant -- Antiquities / John Crowley -- The Manticore's tale / Catherynne M. Valente -- In carnation / Nancy Springer -- Old Foss is the name of his cat / David Sandner -- A safe place to be / Carol Emshwiller -- Nine lives to live / Sharyn McCrumb -- Tiger kill / Kaaron Warren -- Something better than death / Lucy Sussex -- Dominion / Christine Lucas -- Tiger in the snow / Daniel Wynn Barber -- The dweller in high places / Susanna Clarke -- Healing Benjamin / Dennis Danvers -- The puma / Theodora Goss.;From legendary editor Ellen Datlow, Tails of Wonder collects the best of the last thirty years of science fiction and fantasy stories about cats.