Cat People

<p><strong>The book was inspired by the author's decades long obsession with both the 1942 and the 1982 versions of Cat People. If you haven't seen the films the author suggests you do so immediately in whichever order you prefer. In addition the author would also like to acknowledge a debt to both Laird Hunt's The House in the Dark of the Woods whose title he had fun riffing on throughout the novel and Olga Ravn's My Work which gave the author courage to play. Finally the line on page 205 attributed to Irena that says A free woman in an unfree society will become a monster comes from Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography.</strong></p>