The Year's Best Horror Stories 9 - Plot & Excerpts
“The Cats of Pere LaChaise” is one such story: it was published in France in A Touch of Paris, an English-language magazine aimed at tourists in that city, and I should never have encountered it had not another writer, Tim Sullivan, called it to my attention. Neil Olonoff was born in Brooklyn in 1950, graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and currently resides in Miami, Florida. He was living in Paris at the time he wrote this story, teaching English and writing articles for a news magazine, Metro. The editor of A Touch of Paris expressed interest in fiction relating to Paris, and Olonoff responded with “The Cats of Pere LaChaise.” The editor there retitled the story, to no good effect, and I have restored the author’s title at his request. Olonoff has also worked as a psychiatric aide and as an exporter, among other jobs, and had lived a year in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Hardly one to let the grass grow under his feet. Just now, Olonoff writes, “I’m finishing my first novel, begun four years ago.
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