A dragon, a vampire, an abominable snowman, a sea serpent and other grotesque creatures of the imagination loom in these scarifying tales of the bizarre and unnnatural. CONTENTS "The Day of the Dragon" by Guy Endore "Mrs. Amworth" by E.F. Benson "Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent" by Stephen Vincent Benet "Creature of the Snows" by William Sambrot "Aepyornis Island" by H.G. Wells "Fire in the Galley Stove" by William Outerson "The Mannikin" by Robert Bloch "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood "The Derelict" by William Hope Hodgson "O Ugly Bird" by Manly Wade Wellman" "Mimic" by Donald Wollheim "The Hoard of the Gibbelins" by Lord Dunsany "Footsteps Invisible" by Robert Arthur