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•  The Beaver Book of Creepy Verse • interior artwork by William Geldart
• 3 • Creepy? • essay by Ian Woodward and Zenka Woodward
• 5 • All on My Own • poem by Brian Lee
• 6 • Who's That? • poem by James Kirkup
• 8 • Seeing Creepy Things at Night • poem by Eugene Field
• 10 • The Silent Voices • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 11 • Gruesome • (1979) • poem by Roger McGough
• 11 • Nasty Night • poem by Roy Fuller
• 12 • Bump! • poem by Spike Milligan
• 12 • The Dark • poem by Roy Fuller
• 13 • The Haunted Child • poem by Margaret Mahy
• 14 • The Silent Spinney • poem by Seamus Redmond
• 15 • Eeka, Neeka • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 15 • House Fear • (1916) • poem by Robert Frost
• 16 • The Riddle • poem by Louis MacNeice
• 16 • The Listeners • (1911) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 18 • Daniel Webster's Horses • (1923) • poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 19 • The Queer Moment • poem by Brian Lee
• 20 • Quite in the Dark • poem by Brian Lee
• 22 • In the Night • poem by James Stephens
• 22 • Night Omens • poem by John Cotton (poet)
• 23 • Bad Dream • poem by Louis MacNeice
• 26 • Moths and Moonshine • poem by James Reeves
• 26 • The Witch's Song • poem by Ruth Bedford
• 28 • I Saw Three Witches • (1975) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 29 • Night Clouds • poem by Amy Lowell
• 30 • Owl • poem by Sylvia Read
• 30 • Old Moll • (1950) • poem by James Reeves
• 31 • Riddle • poem by Ian Serraillier
• 31 • Space Traveller • poem by James Nimmo
• 32 • The Ride-by-Nights • juvenile • (1913) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 33 • When shall we three meet again? • poem by William Shakespeare
• 34 • The Witch's Cat • (1963) • poem by Ian Serraillier
• 35 • Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd • (1974) • poem by William Shakespeare
• 37 • The Little Creature • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 38 • The Witch Stepmother • poem by unknown
• 40 • Kitchen Song • poem by Edith Sitwell
• 41 • Kitchen Song • poem by Alexander Resnikoff
• 41 • Hinx, Minx, the Old Witch Winks • poem by unknown
• 42 • The Witch's House • poem by
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• 43 • The Witch • (1896) • poem by Mary Coleridge
• 44 • The Witch • poem by D. H. Lawrence
• 44 • The Two Witches • (1965) • poem by Robert Graves
• 46 • Alison Gross • poem by Old English Ballad
• 48 • Hay-how for Hallowe'en! • poem by unknown
• 48 • Hallowe'en • (1968) • poem by Leonard Clark
• 49 • Hallowe'en • (1959) • poem by John Ciardi
• 50 • The Turn of the Road • (1915) • poem by James Stephens
• 51 • All, all a-lonely • poem by unknown
• 51 • Look Out, Boys! • (1975) • poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 52 • Three Witches' Charms • poem by Ben Jonson
• 53 • Witch's Milking Charm • poem by unknown
• 54 • Charm • poem by Robert Herrick
• 54 • A Witch's Chant • poem by John Wilson
• 54 • Witch's Broomstick Spell • poem by unknown
• 55 • Spells • poem by Ian Serraillier
• 56 • A Spell to Destroy Life • (1974) • poem by Cherokee Indians, North America
• 57 • Kehama's Curse • poem by Robert Southey
• 58 • The Witch's Work Song • poem by T. H. White
• 59 • '...The curse be ended' • poem by T. S. Eliot
• 60 • Against Witches • poem by uncredited
• 60 • The Witches' Song • poem by Ben Jonson
• 61 • The Two Ravens • poem by Ian Serraillier
• 62 • A Croon on Hennacliff • poem by R. S. Hawker [as by Robert Stephen Hawker]
• 64 • White Witchcraft • (1974) • poem by Robert Browning
• 64 • Charm Against an Egg-Boat • poem by unknown
• 65 • The Egg-shell • (1940) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 66 • The Hag • (1648) • poem by Robert Herrick
• 67 • A Curse • poem by Douglas Hyde
• 67 • On a Lord • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 68 • The Devil • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• 68 • Some Say the Deil's Deid • poem by unknown
• 69 • The Flying Dutchman • (1947) • poem by Charles Godfrey Leland
• 70 • No Hiding Place Down There • poem by unknown
• 70 • A Linnet in Hell • poem by James Elroy Flecker
• 71 • Green Magic • poem by Edward Lowbury
• 72 • The Snitterjipe • (1975) • poem by James Reeves
• 73 • 'Be a Monster' • (1977) • poem by Roy Fuller
• 74 • The White Monster • poem by William H. Davies [as by W. H. Davies]
• 75 • The Monster • poem by T. Harri Jones
• 75 • The Giant • poem by unknown
• 76 • More About Blunderbore • poem by Roy Fuller
• 77 • Giant Thunder • poem by James Reeves
• 78 • The Ogre • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 80 • Night Wanderers • poem by William H. Davies [as by W. H. Davies]
• 82 • Mab, the Fairy Queen • poem by unknown
• 84 • Dryads • poem by Siegfried Sassoon
• 84 • The Little Elf-Man • poem by John Kendrick Bangs [as by J. K. Bangs]
• 85 • The Satyr's Catch • poem by Ben Jonson
• 85 • The Werewolf • poem by Curt Siodmak
• 86 • The Spunky • poem by unknown
• 87 • The Phantom Pumpkin • poem by Robert Graves
• 87 • 'Her strong enchantments failing...' • poem by A. E. Housman (variant of Her Strong Enchantments Failing 1922)
• 88 • The Horror of Don't Care • poem by unknown
• 88 • Siesta • poem by Stevie Smith
• 89 • A Dream of Hanging • poem by Patricia Beer
• 90 • Otis Snift • poem by Spike Milligan
• 91 • Her-zie • poem by Stevie Smith
• 92 • Mr Ody Met a Body • poem by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
• 92 • Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? • (1913) • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 94 • Grave by a Holm-Oak • poem by Stevie Smith
• 94 • The Unquiet Grave • poem by uncredited [as by unknown]
• 96 • To a Human Skeleton • poem by Richard Armour
• 97 • The Ghost and the Skeleton • poem by unknown
• 97 • Two's Company • poem by Raymond Wilson
• 99 • Ghosts • poem by Ian Hamilton
• 100 • Sweet William's Ghost • poem by uncredited [as by Old English Ballad]
• 101 • Eerie Men of Erith • poem by unknown
• 101 • Albert and the Ghost of Lady Jane Grey • poem by G. Marriott Edgar
• 101 • The Ghost's Lament • poem by unknown
• 103 • Once I was a Monarch's Daughter • poem by unknown
• 104 • The Ghosts' High Noon • (unknown) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
• 105 • Song of Two Ghosts • (1932) • poem by Indian Song from Omaha, North America
• 105 • The Great Auk's Ghost • (1907) • poem by Ralph Hodgson
• 106 • There she weaves both day and night (from The Lady of Shalott) • (1974) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 107 • Sir Roger • poem by unknown
• 108 • Windy Nights • (1885) • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 109 • The Crooked Pear Tree Hill • poem by Leonard Clark
• 113 • Shadwell Stair • (1974) • poem by Wilfred Owen
• 114 • Colonel Fazackerley • (1970) • poem by Charles Causley
• 116 • The Ghost in the Garden • poem by Osbert Sitwell
• 117 • Ghosts • poem by Robert W. Service (variant of The Ghosts 1912) [as by Robert Service]
• 118 • The Phantom-Lover • (1974) • poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• 119 • Shadow-Bride • (1962) • poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 120 • The Handkerchief Ghost • poem by Christian Morgenstern
• 121 • The Ghost • (1914) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 122 • The Glimpse • (1919) • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 123 • Haunted • (1954) • poem by R. P. Lister
• 124 • Prince Kano • (1975) • poem by Edward Lowbury
• 125 • Sally Simpkin's Lament and John Jones's Ghastly Ghostly Catastrophe • poem by Thomas Hood (variant of Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe 1834)
• 127 • The Old Wife and the Ghost • juvenile • (1952) • poem by James Reeves
• 129 • City • (1974) • poem by John Betjeman
• 129 • The Ghosts' Walk • (1935) • poem by John Kendall (II)
• 132 • Emperors of the Island • (1957) • poem by Dannie Abse
• 134 • The Man Who Wasn't There • poem by Brian Lee
• 135 • On a Dentist • poem by unknown
• 135 • On Leslie Moore • poem by unknown
• 135 • On Dr Chard • poem by unknown