Cats Creep at Night

Cats Creep at Night is a 1930 Australia radio play by Max Afford.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29842588 |title=Broadcasting|newspaper=The Advertiser |location=South Australia |date=21 October 1930 |accessdate=28 December 2023 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}

It was Afford's first radio play, written while he was still a journalist, and it earned him one guinea.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49263859 |title=Playwright on Visit |newspaper=Barrier Miner |volume=LXVI |issue=17,456 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=16 May 1953 |accessdate=28 December 2023 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} He later said it was "an hour of everything in the blood and thunder line — a haunted house, a thunderstorm, car smashes, a madman."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55854340 |title=Radio Roundabout |newspaper=The Mail (Adelaide) |volume=40 |issue=2,030 |location=South Australia |date=28 April 1951 |accessdate=28 December 2023 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Afford directed it himself for Adelaide radio station 5CL.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53918548 |title=Features From 5CL |newspaper=The Register News-pictorial |volume=XCV |issue=27,864 |location=South Australia |date=4 December 1930 |accessdate=28 December 2023 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} The play was very popular and was repeated by popular demand.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53926740 |title=Features From 5CL |newspaper=The Register News-pictorial |volume=XCV |issue=27,858 |location=South Australia |date=27 November 1930 |accessdate=28 December 2023 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} Afford later said "although I blush now to think of it, it was repeated three times after the original performance."{{Citation

| title=Australia on the Air

| journal=ABC Weekly

|volume=3 |issue=2 |date=11 January 1941

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1309858540

| id=nla.obj-1309858540

| access-date=28 December 2023

}}

Afford followed it with another similar play, Blackmail.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58847880 |title="Blackmail" From 5CL |newspaper=The Mail (Adelaide) |volume=19 |issue=977 |location=South Australia |date=14 February 1931 |accessdate=28 December 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}