Cat's Cradle [Mass Market Paperback]

William W. Johnstone (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 412 pages
• Publisher: Zebra Books (May 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821718258
• ISBN-13: 978-0821718254
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,813,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrifying tale ...., March 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cat's Cradle (Mass Market Paperback)

Here's the description from the back of this book to help you decide if this book is for you: "No one knew where she had come from. She was just a scrap of a girl clinging to a black cat with eerie yellow eyes. A lost child or an orphan, maybe. It was a miracle she had survived on Eden Mountain at all. Suddenly strange things began to happen in placid Ruger County, bizarre killings that the police couldn't solve. Horrifying accidents that the people couldn't comprehend. An insatiable beast was stalking their lovers' lanes, their swimming holes, and their children. No one noticed how quickly the little girl's pale cheeks turned pink with health. How her frail body filled out with sleek, lithe muscles and feline grace. And no one noticed that at night her innocent blue eyes turned an eerie, evil yellow ..."

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Johnstone horror, June 19, 2001

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W & T Perry "mr. and mrs. qc" (New River Valley, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cat's Cradle (Mass Market Paperback)

This story would definetely make a B-horror flick, but I enjoy reading Johnstone's horror novels. Classic Good vs. Evil, God vs. Satan. In a rural county in Virginia, the devil's child and cat are awakened by an engineer in a mine. Bad mistake. Before this, Johnstone gives a background to how the girl came about and what has been happening over the course of about 2 centuries.

Well, all Hades breaks loose. The girl and cat survive on human flesh. If you happen to survive their attack, you turn into a beast. Also, Satan calls upon the cats in the town and county to attack humans. This book is full of gore and is not for the weak stomach. It is actually one of Johnstone's goriest I've read, next to The Uninvited and Bats, also good horror novels.

This story gets complicated as the sheriff and state troopers are trying to figure out what is going on, then the Feds get involved, headed by an insane person. The angle with the Feds, OSS, CIA, FBI and so on gets complicated at times. The main reason they're there, is to try and harness this evil and use as a weapon against the Russians. Yeah, right! Did not work as several are killed....

To find out what happens, read the book.

Only a couple of things about this novel that are negatives, lots of cursing and disregard for a few Christian denominations.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars found it after 19 years, March 28, 2005

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Book-a-holic "Heather" (Franklin , Indiana USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cat's Cradle (Mass Market Paperback)

When I was younger I read a book that I really enjoyed and spent years trying to remember what the title was. I could remember all of the character's and the setting but not the title. Well , thanks to modern computer's and the internet , I now know that book was Cat's Cradle and I am so happy to have the chance to read it again. It really is a gory novel , but that is what I loved about it the first time and what I still find interesting about it now , even after 19 years. Excellent gore novel. 5 stars.