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For He Can Creep

By Siobhan Carroll
For He Can Creep by Siobhan Carroll digital book - Fable

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A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELETTE

A Tor.com original, Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep is a dark fantasy story of poetry, devilry, and cats in a battle of good vs. evil for the fate of humanity.


Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics believing God has commissioned him to write The Divine Poem. But years earlier, he made a bargain with Satan and the devil has come to collect his due--a poem that will bring about the apocalypse.

Saving Smart's soul, and the rest of the world, falls to Jeoffry, the poet's demon-fighting cat and a creature of cunning Satan would be a fool to underestimate...

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“For those of us who love our cats but can't help but wonder what lives they lead away from us and what 'battles' they wage, For He Can Creep is a must-read. Jeoffry is the cat who guards the St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, loyal to the poet housed within its walls and locked into an ongoing conflict with the demonic minions of Satan that visit each night to steal his human's soul. The face-off against Satan Himself was artfully done throughout the entire story and I loved how Jeoffry's internal conflict over the battle and his failings to protect his master early on built up throughout the story into joining forces with the Black Tom, Polly, and the Nighthunter Moppet to engage in the culmination of Jeoffry's holy war against the Devil to save his poet's soul. The duality of the Nighthunter Moppet's nature was the perfect compliment to the rest of the story and I loved the imagery that Carroll used to illustrate this switch from kitten to divine being and back.”

About Siobhan Carroll

Siobhan Carroll is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in British literature from 1750-1850 and in modern science fiction and fantasy. She first encountered Jeoffry in an anthology of eighteenth-century poetry and he has proven hard to forget. Readers can find other fiction by Siobhan in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Ellen Datlow’s The Best of the Best Horror of the Year anthology, and indexed on her website.

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