Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleRead about another entry on the list.
My edition of these stories is a gaudily-covered reprint of an original edition of 1922. However, it does contain a quite scary story about a Brazilian cat, in which we find the excellent description: “One stroke of that huge paw tore off my calf as a shaving of wood curls off before a plane.”
--Marshal Zeringue