Grizabella Grizabella Grizabella is the "Glamour Cat" in the musical production "Cats". She does not appear in T. S. Eliot's work "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", but she is a prominent character in the stage play. It appears that she is the feline version of the woman mentioned in T.S. Eliot's poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Night." "Remark the woman<br> Who hesitates toward you in the light of the door<br> Which opens on her like a grin. <br> You see the border of her coat<br> Is torn and stained with sand,<br> And you see the corner of her eye<br> Twists
The King of the Cats 1929 short story "The King of the Cats" based around this folk story was selected by The Library of America for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of "American Fantastic Tales", edited by Peter Straub. Frances Jenkins Olcott's 1942 anthology "Good Stories For Great Holidays" included a version of Charlotte S. Burne's "The King of the Cats" adapted by Ernest Rhys. Barbara Sleigh's 1955 children's book "" is inspired in part by this tale, as are its two sequels, "The Kingdom of Carbonel" and "Carbonel and Callidor", which make up the "Carbonel" series. Peter Straub's 1980 novel, "Shadowland" also references the