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Anthology Title:
The Penguin Book of Dragons • anthology by
Scott G. Bruce
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- xv • Introduction (The Penguin Book of Dragons) • essay by Scott G. Bruce
- 5 • The Hydra of Lerna • short story by Apollodorus
- 7 • Medusa, Mother of Monsters • short story by Lucan
- 11 • Cadmus and the Dragon of Ares • short fiction by Ovid
- 16 • The Death of Laocoön • poem by Virgil
- 18 • The Dragon of Bagrada River • poem by Silus Italicus
- 23 • Dragons Against Elephants • essay by Pliny the Elder [as by Pliny]
- 31 • Biblical Beasts • essay by uncredited
- 36 • The Guardian of Heaven's Ladder • essay by Perpetua
- 38 • Descendants of Darkness • essay by uncredited
- 44 • The Dragon Became Her Tomb • essay by Venantius Fortunatas
- 47 • Coiled Couriers of the Damned • essay by Gregory the Great
- 50 • The Monster of the River Ness • essay by Adamnán of Iona
- 57 • The Terror of Nations • [Beowulf: miscellaneous excerpts, sequels and alternative versions] • poem by uncredited
- 74 • Sigurd, the Slayer of Fáfnir • [Volsungs] • short fiction by uncredited
- 78 • Winged Dragons of the North • short fiction by uncredited
- 85 • A Treasure of Ancient Dragon Lore • essay by Isidore of Seville
- 87 • Dark Age Creature Catalogues • essay by uncredited
- 89 • You Crushed Their Heads Upon the Waters • essay by Hrabanus Maurus
- 91 • Remembering A Pannonian Dragon • essay by Arnold of St. Emmeram
- 96 • God's Fiery Vengeance • essay by Herman of Tournai
- 99 • Bone Fires and Dragon Sperm • essay by John Beleth
- 101 • The Prophecies of Merlin • short fiction by Geoffrey of Monmouth
- 106 • The Devil Is the Largest Serpent • essay by uncredited
- 109 • Hunting Monsters in Kara-Jang • essay by Marco Polo
- 117 • A Theologian Contemplates the Nature of Dragons • essay by uncredited
- 120 • Why Dragons Fear Lightening • essay by Michael Psellos
- 122 • A Demon in Disguise • short fiction by uncredited
- 125 • The Treasury Dragon of Constantinople • short fiction by uncredited
- 129 • The Terror of Trebizond • short fiction by uncredited
- 132 • The Ogre-Dragon's Pitiless Heart • short fiction by uncredited
- 141 • The Dragon and the Lion • short fiction by Chrétien de Troyes
- 143 • A Dragon With the Devil Inside • poem by uncredited
- 152 • Four Saintly Dragon-Slayers • short fiction by Jacobus de Voragine
- 165 • The Dragons of Fairyland • poem by Edmund Spenser
- 188 • A Farting Dragon Burlesque • poem by unknown (variant of The Dragon of Wantley 1881) [as by uncredited]
- 194 • The Great Serpent Returns • poem by John Milton
- 201 • The Dragon of Drought • poem by uncredited
- 204 • A Black Wind from the Sea • essay by Al-Masudi
- 206 • No One Ever Escapes My Claws • short fiction by Abolqasem Ferdowski
- 209 • The Eight-Headed Serpent of Koshi • (1906) • short fiction by Ō no Yasumaro
- 212 • Chief of the Scaly Creatures • essay by Li Shizhen
- 214 • My Lord Bag of Rice • short story by Yei Theodora Ozaki [as by uncredited]
- 221 • The Fisherman and the Dragon Princess • short story by Yei Theodora Ozaki (variant of The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad 1903) [as by uncredited]
- 239 • Strange, Yet Now a Neighbour to Us • (1614) • short story by uncredited
- 242 • A World Full of Dragons • essay by Edward Topsell
- 265 • Dweller's Below • essay by Athanasius Kircher
- 287 • A Lizardy Sort of Beast • juvenile • novelette by Kenneth Grahame (variant of The Reluctant Dragon 1898)
- 315 • Your Kindness Quite Undragons Me • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit (variant of The Last of the Dragons 1925) [as by Edith Nesbit]
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