An infant foundling girl is discovered with owl feathers in her basket and an owl pellet clutched in one hand. "Daughter of Owls" takes place in some 17th century English village, with a framing device set in Victorian or early Edwardian times.
The story ends with the writer "selfishly" wondering how long the cat can keep defending his home and family. When the writer stays up one night to see who is fighting the cat, he sees a demonic, shapeshifting creature approach his home, only to be drive off at great cost by the black cat. Every night the cat shows signs of desperate combat resulting in serious wounds. In "The Price" a middle-aged writer living with his family in rural England adopts a stray black cat. Creatures of the Night is a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman which reprints two short stories from his collection Smoke and Mirrors with elaborate illustrations by artist Michael Zulli.
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