# The Black Cat Volume 4

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 Umbstaetter had the novel idea of paying writers by merit rather than by word count, an idea that attracted a great deal of talent.

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: The Black Cat
- Year: 1898
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheBlackCatV04no01189810)
- 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/TheBlackCatV04no01189810/read)