Lords Of The Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales is a collection of short stories about cats . The authors include Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Algernon Blackwood, Honoré De Balzac(Translated from the French by Carl Van Vechten), Booth Tarkington, G. H. Powell, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas A. Janvier, W. H. Hudson, William Livingston Alden, Peggy Bacon, and Charles Dudley Warner, with a preface by Carl Van Vechten.