This anthology collects 23 classic short stories with cryptozoological themes: unknown species, relict creatures from the past, and strange creatures hidden in dark corners of the globe. Stories include The Jheen, In the Avu Observatory, AEpyornis Island, The Fiend of the Cooperage, The Brazilian Cat, The Killing of the Mammoth, The Spell of the Bird, A Relic of the Pliocene, The Monarch of St. Elias, The Great White Serpent of the Malorli, Alfred Jenkins and the Didi, The Gregosaur of Black Lake, The Death-Trap, Last of the Race, The Air Serpent, The Terror of Blue John Gap, The Horror of...

Wulf is an anthology of 26 classic stories of lupine and lycanthropic creatures. Contemporary media's interest in werewolves is only the latest permutation of the creature's development in literature and the arts. The stories collected here highlight the diverse nature of werewolf fiction, even in the early years. Authors include Algernon Blackwood, George MacDonald, Bernard Capes, Saki, and many more.

Monstrum collects twenty classic short stories with myriad monstrous creatures from mythology and darker imaginations. "The Cube" is a precursor of "pod people" science fiction, "The Derelict" is a very different sea monster, while "The Basilisk," "Medusa," and "The Song of the Sirens" give their own versions of mythological beasts.

As a companion anthology to Flora Curiosa, Botanica Delira collects 21 short stories of botanical wonders and horrors, strange plants that delight and sometimes kill. These imaginative flowers and trees (and even one cactus) are a literary outgrowth of newspaper "wonder stories" that purported to describe rare natural marvels. To illustrate this "nature fakery," ten brief newspaper and magazine stories are included, showing the variety of early botanical literary hoaxes, from man-eating plants to electric trees.

Bacteria and other microbial organisms, whether strange and new, or old and deadly, are the theme for this collection of thirteen short stories and one classic novel. Horror, crime, romance, science fiction ... a multitude of genres play host to these invisible organisms that so easily influence mankind. Age-old diseases like leprosy and cholera meet laboratory creations. And, of course, the search for new microbes rarely ends as trouble-free as the discoverers might dream.

Spectral felines and were-cats (including were-tigers and were-leopards) are among the furry (and sometimes deadly) creatures in this anthology. Sometimes the feline is only in the mind, but other stories have a more tangible beast. Horror, humor, and fantasy play out in these strange tales of man vs cat. The twenty-two stories included are: The King of the Cats (Thomas Lyttelton), Murtough Murphy's Story (Samuel Lover), The Man-Tiger (H. Wellington Vrooman), The Man at the Next Table (Robert W. Chambers), The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce), The Were-Tiger (Sir Hugh Charles Clifford), A...

Zoologica Fantastica includes fifteen stories of devilish creatures, unknown species, and weird beasts from air, sea, and land. Cryptofiction is a form of science fiction, where the excitement of zoological discovery meets imaginative biology and adventure. The stories in this anthology arise from the pulps (primarily the 1920s and 1930s), the bedrock of today's speculative fiction. From giant insects to Sargasso Sea monsters, creatures from past eons, or horrors from the cavernous depths, these stories celebrate the as yet undiscovered creatures that hide in the far corners of our planet,...

Nineteen tales of flowering enigmas and leafy terrors are presented in Coachwhip Publications' third volume of cryptobotanical short stories from classic science fiction and fantasy. Man-eating trees, poisonous orchids, killer cacti, and lycanthrope-inducing blossoms are among the mysterious vegetation we meet in these tales, as the botanical kingdom shows its teeth. Stories include The Giant Wistaria (1891), Kasper Craig (1892), The Gold Plant (1895), The Story of the Grey House (1898), The Flower of Death (1916), The Lure of the Lavender Trees (1917), The Warlock of Glororum (1919), An...