The Cat's Tale

The Cat's Tale is a short story featured in the Second "Tales To Give You Goosebumps" book.

Plot
A young girl named Marla is very upset when her family decides to pack up and move from New York to River Falls. She misses so much! Like taxis, her friends, and much more... The only one good thing it seems to have is the fact it rains a lot more then it would in the big city. Though some others may disagree, considering that bad news instead...

Marla's family decide to try to take advantage of the situation, with it storming and all, to start telling spooky stories. Marla doesn't have any interest in scary stories, thinking that she would rather be attacked by a giant black black instead of sitting there listening. When suddenly it happens! A black cat hops into the window and she begs her parents to let her keep the kitty-cat. They agree pretty quickly and she jumps at the opportunity to shower her new pet with attention.

Though she is a little hesitant when it suddenly hops into the shower with her...

Eventually it turns out that the cat is trying to steal her life! Before it runs out of all nine of its life.