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• 11 • Introduction (The Creepy-Crawly Book) • essay by Lucy Berman
• 15 • The Legend of Arachne • short story by Lucy Berman
• 18 • The Legend of Robert the Bruce and the Spider • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 21 • The Valley of the Spiders • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Valley of Spiders 1903)
• 36 • Good Company • poem by Leonard Clark
• 39 • The Legend of Cadmus • short story by Thomas Bullfinch
• 43 • "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" • [The Jungle Books] • (1894) • short story by Rudyard Kipling (variant of 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' 1893)
• 68 • Old Rattler and the King Snake • short story by David Starr Jordan
• 73 • The Cobra • poem by Ogden Nash
• 74 • Worms and the Wind • poem by Carl Sandburg
• 77 • The Legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin • short story by Lucy Berman
• 82 • The Curse of Mouse Tower • short story by Bernhardt J. Hurwood
• 85 • The Mouse • short story by Henry Williamson
• 100 • The Vampire Bats • short story by William Beebe
• 103 • Rats • poem by Joan Beadon
• 104 • Bats • poem by Randall Jarrell
• 105 • The Mouse's Tail • poem by Lewis Carroll
• 109 • The Scorpion • essay by Richard Henwood
• 113 • Wilhelmina • essay by Gerald Durrell
• 125 • The Ants • short fiction by Hanns Heinz Ewers [as by H. H. Ewers]
• 132 • The Ant • poem by Ogden Nash
• 132 • The Termite • (1969) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 135 • The Legends of the Kraken and the Hydra • essay by Lucy Berman
• 139 • The Squids • short fiction by Jules Verne
• 151 • The Octopus • short fiction by Victor Hugo
• 166 • The Kraken • (1830) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]