Prologue: Hunger
Part one: Fools, freaks and fugitives: Portrait of girl and geshrat
What There is to see
On the parroto parroto
Scavengers
Speaking of a word
Two conversations
Something of Babilonium
Life in the theatre
Again, The criss-cross man
"The freaks are out! the freaks are out!"
Part two: Things neglected, things forgotten: Traveling north
Darkness and anticipation
Sacbrood
Lament (the munkee's tale)
Pursuer
Wunderkammen
Star-striker
Departure
Life and death in Chicken town
Malingo alone
Night conversations
Death sentence
Dreamer to dreamer
Husband and wife
Fates
Kaspar is visited
Abduction
Summoning
Part three: Time of monsters
Captain Converse
Beasts of Efreet
News In Nonce
Events at the threshold
Visit to Marapozsa Street
Secrets and meatloaf
Two in nineteen
Bridegroom unearthed
Owner of the dead man's house
Midnight's heart
Dragon bones
Tale of Endless partings
Ambitious conjuration
High maze
Dark Denied
Prince and the beast Boy
Decision
Part four: Sea comes to Chickentown: Departures
Something in the wind
Stirring the Waters
Into the hereafter
Father and Daughter
Into the Wormwood
Secrets of secrets
Warship unmade
Living and the Dead
Beginning of the End
Down and down
"Never fear . . ."
Return of the sea.