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Beware the Cat
''Beware the Cat'' (1561) is a short English novel written by the printer's assistant and poet William Baldwin (sometimes called Gulielmus Baldwin), in early 1553. ''Beware the Cat'' is notable as the first horror fiction text longer than a short story, and it has been claimed by academics as the first novel ever published in English.〔Ringler, William A. and Michael Flachmann eds. "Preface." ''Beware the Cat''. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1988.〕
==Publication history==
The work languished unpublished after 1553, due to the change in the political climate under Mary Tudor, but it was eventually published – perhaps with some revision – in 1561 (suppressed by the state, and now lost) and again in 1570 (now only known via a Victorian transcript, other than four pages that still exist) and finally in 1584. The work was dedicated to the actor John Young. On publication in its 1570 edition it was subject to an anonymous poetic riposte of 56 lines, "A shorte Answere to the boke called: ''Beware the Cat''", which rebukes the author for making fun of the narrator Master Gregory Streamer (who is not otherwise known to have really existed). The novel survived the centuries, and was published in ''Typographical Antiquities'' (1786) as a fine example of black-letter printing. It was also known in mid-Victorian times, since it was published by the Chetham Society in their volume ''Remains, Historical & Literary'' (1860). It received almost no attention from literary scholars, although William P. Holden produced an obscure edition in the original archaic English, issued from Connecticut College in 1963. A full scholarly edition only appeared in 1988 (Ringler and Flachmann), after which some further scholarly papers appeared.
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