Cat People

The book was inspired by the author’s decades long obsession with both the 1942 and the 1982 versions of Cat People. If you haven’t seen the films, the author suggests you do so immediately, in whichever order you prefer. In addition, the author would also like to acknowledge a debt to both Laird Hunt’s The House in the Dark of the Woods, whose title he had fun riffing on throughout the novel, and Olga Ravn’s My Work, which gave the author courage to play. Finally, the line on page 205 attributed to Irena that says, “A free woman in an unfree society will become a monster,” comes from Angela Carter’s The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography.

Author Biography

Peter Grandbois is the author of fourteen books, most recently Domestic Bestiary. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in over one hundred and fifty journals. His plays have been nominated for several New York Innovative Theatre Awards and have been performed in St. Louis, Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York. He is poetry editor at Boulevard magazine and teaches at Denison University in Ohio. You can find him at www.petergrandbois.com