Introduction: A Shriek in the Night
"Dragons in Their Slime"
The Girl Who Lived
"The Most Amazing Creature"
An Epic Written in Chalk
"The Dreadful Clink of Hammers"
"It's a Beautiful Day and the Beaches Are Open"
Trembling in the Dark
The Divine Calligrapher
The Apple of God's Eye
Whales in the Treetops
Without a Trace
"None of the Advantages"
"Sister of the Above"
Ferns and Fox Hunters
Into the Temple of Immortality
Framed for Bliss
"A Delicate Toast of Mice"
Kirkdale Cave
In Nature's Cathedral
"Quite in Love with Seaweeds"
William Paley Stubs His Toe
Here Be Dragons (and Giants and Cyclopses)
Looking into Medusa's Eyes
Leibniz's Unicorn
"The Grinders of an Elephant"
"The Terror of the Forest"
"The Very Extraordinary Skeleton"
Noah's Ark
"A Cold Wind out of a Dark Cellar"
Sherlock Holmes Ponders a Bone
Bursting the Limits of Time
Boiling Seas and Exploding Mountains
Mayflies and Human History
Scattered by Desert Winds
Lizards in Scripture?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Defunct Animals and Open Windows
The Mystery of the Moa
"The Invention of Dinosaurs"
"When Troubles Come, They Come Not Single Spies but in Battalions"
Return of the Happy World
Dinner in a Dinosaur
"It Is Like Confessing a Murder"
Epilogue.