# The Black Cat Volume 1

The Black Cat was a much imitated all-fiction magazine that used mostly amateur authors. It had no restrictions other than to tell a good story. Editor Herman D. Umbstaetter had the novel idea of paying writers by merit rather than by word count, an idea that attracted a great deal of talent. All covers are by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter.

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: The Black Cat
- Year: 1895
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheBlackCatV01no12189609)
- Licence or status: Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it: Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

[Read it](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/print/ia/TheBlackCatV01no12189609/read)