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• xi • Introduction (Phoenix Feathers: A Collection of Mythical Monsters) • essay by Barbara Silverberg
• 1 • The Arimaspi and the Griffins • short fiction by Pliny the Elder [as by Pliny]
• 2 • Griffins in the Land of Bachary • short fiction by John Mandeville [as by Sir John Mandeville]
• 4 • The Griffin and the Minor Canon • (1885) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 24 • From Polypus on the Coasts of Norway • short fiction by Archbishop Olaus Magnus
• 25 • The Largest Sea-Monster in the World • short fiction by Bishop Erich Pontoppidan
• 27 • The Kraken • (1940) • short story by L. Ron Hubbard [as by Frederick Engelhardt]
• 54 • The Greatest Among Serpents • short fiction by Edward Topsell
• 56 • Chinese Puzzle • (1953) • novelette by John Wyndham
• 81 • The Reluctant Dragon • juvenile • (1898) • novelette by Kenneth Grahame
• 109 • From Certain Wild Asses • short fiction by Ctesias
• 110 • On the Nature of Unicorns • short fiction by Bartholomaeus Anglicus
• 111 • Unicorns in Mecca • short fiction by Lewis Varthema
• 113 • The Ancient Last • (1965) • short story by Herb Lehrman
• 116 • The Silken-Swift... • (1956) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Silken-Swift 1953)
• 142 • The Enormous Bird of Madeigascar • short fiction by Marco Polo
• 143 • The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman • short fiction by Alf Laylah wa Laylah
• 151 • Bird in the Hand • [Svetz] • (1970) • novelette by Larry Niven
• 178 • The Origin of the Basilisk • short fiction by Edward Topsell
• 179 • The Vienna Basilisk • short fiction by Anonymous
• 186 • The Sacred Bird of Heliopolis • short fiction by Herodotus
• 187 • The Egg • short fiction by E. Nesbit