Nineteen tales of flowering enigmas and leafy terrors are presented in Coachwhip Publications' third volume of cryptobotanical short stories from classic science fiction and fantasy. Man-eating trees, poisonous orchids, killer cacti, and lycanthrope-inducing blossoms are among the mysterious vegetation we meet in these tales, as the botanical kingdom shows its teeth. Stories include The Giant Wistaria (1891), Kasper Craig (1892), The Gold Plant (1895), The Story of the Grey House (1898), The Flower of Death (1916), The Lure of the Lavender Trees (1917), The Warlock of Glororum (1919), An Orchid of Asia: a Tale of the South Seas (1920), "Glued" (1921), The Tree (1921), Through the Crater's Rim (1926), The Blood-Flower (1927), The Devils of Po Sung (1927), White Orchids (1927), Vine Terror (1934), The Devil Flower (1939), The Garden of Hell (1943), and Cactus (1950).

Wulf is an anthology of 26 classic stories of lupine and lycanthropic creatures. Contemporary media's interest in werewolves is only the latest permutation of the creature's development in literature and the arts. The stories collected here highlight the diverse nature of werewolf fiction, even in the early years. Authors include Algernon Blackwood, George MacDonald, Bernard Capes, Saki, and many more.

Flora Curiosa compiles classic botanical (and mycological) short stories from science fiction and fantasy. Stories include Rappaccini's Daughter (Hawthorne), The American's Tale (Doyle), The Man-Eating Tree (Robinson), The Balloon Tree (Mitchell), The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (H. G. Wells), The Treasure in the Forest (H. G. Wells), The Purple Pileus (H. G. Wells), The Purple Terror (White), A Vine on a House (Bierce), Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant (Garis), The Willows (Blackwood), The Voice in the Night (Hodgson), The Orchid Horror (Blunt), The Man Whom the Trees Loved (Blackwood), The Pavilion (Nesbit), The Sumach (Daubeny), and The Green Death (McNeile).

Zoologica Fantastica includes fifteen stories of devilish creatures, unknown species, and weird beasts from air, sea, and land. Cryptofiction is a form of science fiction, where the excitement of zoological discovery meets imaginative biology and adventure. The stories in this anthology arise from the pulps (primarily the 1920s and 1930s), the bedrock of today's speculative fiction. From giant insects to Sargasso Sea monsters, creatures from past eons, or horrors from the cavernous depths, these stories celebrate the as yet undiscovered creatures that hide in the far corners of our planet, waiting for unwary explorers to cross their paths.

Spectral felines and were-cats (including were-tigers and were-leopards) are among the furry (and sometimes deadly) creatures in this anthology. Sometimes the feline is only in the mind, but other stories have a more tangible beast. Horror, humor, and fantasy play out in these strange tales of man vs cat. The twenty-two stories included are: The King of the Cats (Thomas Lyttelton), Murtough Murphy's Story (Samuel Lover), The Man-Tiger (H. Wellington Vrooman), The Man at the Next Table (Robert W. Chambers), The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce), The Were-Tiger (Sir Hugh Charles Clifford), A Vendetta of the Jungle (Arthur Applin and H. Sidney Warwick), The Gray Cat (Barry Pain), A Were-Tiger (Sir William George Maxwell), Ancient Sorceries (Algernon Blackwood), Tobermory (Saki), In the Valley of the Sorceress (Sax Rohmer), The Cats of Ulthar (H. P. Lovecraft), The Black Cat (William J. Wintle), The Empty Sleeve (Algernon Blackwood), The Tiger (A. E. Coppard), The Were-Tiger (Lyman Bryson), The Leopard Woman (Edith Ross), Tiger (Bassett Morgan), Fangs of Vengeance (Nathan Hindin), Toean Matjan (Vennette Herron), Spotted Satan (Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price).

As a companion anthology to Flora Curiosa, Botanica Delira collects 21 short stories of botanical wonders and horrors, strange plants that delight and sometimes kill. These imaginative flowers and trees (and even one cactus) are a literary outgrowth of newspaper "wonder stories" that purported to describe rare natural marvels. To illustrate this "nature fakery," ten brief newspaper and magazine stories are included, showing the variety of early botanical literary hoaxes, from man-eating plants to electric trees.

Monstrum collects twenty classic short stories with myriad monstrous creatures from mythology and darker imaginations. "The Cube" is a precursor of "pod people" science fiction, "The Derelict" is a very different sea monster, while "The Basilisk," "Medusa," and "The Song of the Sirens" give their own versions of mythological beasts.

A Spectrum Unseen collects 14 short stories and 2 novellas dealing with invisible people and creatures in classic science fiction and fantasy. Included are H. G. Well's The Invisible Man, and such stories as The Crystal Man, The Horla, The Gift of Fernseed, The Face of Air, Sister Hannah, and more.

Anthropologica Incognita collects twenty classic short stories of wild men, monster apes, weird primates, and strange races. Includes the Story of TsoqlEM, Two Nights in Southern Mexico, Hunting of the Soko, Manmat'ha, A Haunt of the Jinkarras, From a Simian Point of View, Dankwarra: the Isle of Fear, The Depths of Kyamo, No-Man's-Land, The Harbour-Master, Found by the Missing Link, In the Lower Passage, Beyond the Banyans, Back There in the Grass, The Ape-Man, The Missing Link, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, Spirit Island, The Horror-Horn, and The Tale of the Abu Laheeb.

This anthology collects 23 classic short stories with cryptozoological themes: unknown species, relict creatures from the past, and strange creatures hidden in dark corners of the globe. Stories include The Jheen, In the Avu Observatory, pyornis Island, The Fiend of the Cooperage, The Brazilian Cat, The Killing of the Mammoth, The Spell of the Bird, A Relic of the Pliocene, The Monarch of St. Elias, The Great White Serpent of the Malorli, Alfred Jenkins and the Didi, The Gregosaur of Black Lake, The Death-Trap, Last of the Race, The Air Serpent, The Terror of Blue John Gap, The Horror of the Heights, The Humming Bats, The Devil's Fish, An Alaskan Monster, The Last Egg of the Great Auk, The Shame Of Gold, and An Undiscovered "Isle in the Far Sea."

Phantom Bouquets reprints two of the first detailed booklets on skeletonizing leaves for decoration and nature study, and offers notes on modern methods for this fascinating nature craft. Bleached or colored skeleton leaves can be used in many different art or craft projects.

Cetus Insolitus is an anthology of twenty-six classic sea monster stories, from giant squid and invisible octopuses to sea serpents and strange deadly fish. The stories range from the humorous to the darkly apocalyptic. Well-known stories by authors like H. G. Wells and William Hope Hodgson are compiled with pieces that have rarely been seen since their first publication in the 1800s or early 1900s. The stories include The Tail of the Big Sea-Serpent, Jim Newman's Yarn: Or, A Sight of the Sea Serpent, A Real Sea-Serpent, A Matter of Fact, The Rival Beauties, The Sea Raiders, In the Abyss, The Last Stand of the Decapods, The Voyage of the "Mary Simpson," Out of the Deep, The Sea Serpent Syndicate, A Tropical Horror, From the Tideless Sea, The Terror of the Sea Caves, The Mystery of the Derelict, Winkler Ashore: The Sea-Serpent, Crew Saved by Sea Serpent, The Thing in the Weeds, The Finding of the Graiken, From the Darkness and the Depths, The Stone Ship, De Profundis, Demons of the Sea, The Habitants of Middle Islet, The Finless Death, and The Octopus Cycle.

This anthology collects a wide range of early stories involving dinosaurs and other fossil reptilians come back to life. The short stories include The Last of the Vampires, The Lizard, The Monster of Lake LaMetrie, The Slaying of the Plesiosaurus, The Pterodactyl, The Monster of "Partridge Creek," The Diplodocus, The Last Haunt of the Dinosaur, The Great Beast Of Kafue, The Lizard God, The Beast of the Yungas, The Paradise of the Ice Wilderness, The Ancient Horror, and Report on the Status Quo. Also included is Arthur Conan Doyle's classic, The Lost World.

Invertebrata Enigmatica collects thirty classic sci-fi/fantasy short stories involving strange invertebrates. From giant arachnids to intelligent insects, the stories explore imaginative worlds where human meets bug (and bug might just win...). Some stories are well-known, others are rarely reprinted. They include: The Sphinx, The Blue Beetle: A Confession, The Strong Spider, The Queen of the Bees, The Crab Spider, A Moth-Genus Novo, The Purple Emperor, The Messenger, The Captivity of the Professor, The Valley of the Spiders, The Ash-Tree, The Great White Moth, The Green Spider, The Empire of the Ants, The Lace Designers, The Feather Pillow, Caterpillars, The Golden Fly, The Red Spider, An Egyptian Hornet, The Spider, The Eggs of the Silver Moon, The Blue Cockroach, The Gold-Seekers, The Spectre Spiders, The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika, Mive, The Worm, Vampires of the Desert, and The Bees from Borneo.

Twenty classic stories of horror, adventure, and mystery with a focus on Egyptology. Stories include The Mummy's Foot (Theophile Gautier), Some Words with a Mummy (Edgar Allan Poe), Lost in a Pyramid (Louisa May Alcott), My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies (Grant Allen), The Ring of Thoth (Arthur Conan Doyle), Lot No. 249 (Doyle), A Professor of Egyptology (Guy Boothby), The Story of Baelbrow (E. and H. Heron), The Mysterious Mummy (Sax Rohmer), The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt (C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne), Mustapha (S. Baring-Gould), The Nemesis of Fire (Algernon Blackwood), Sand (Blackwood), Smith and the Pharaos (H. Rider Haggard), In the Valley of the Sorceress (Rohmer), The Death-Ring of Sneferu (Rohmer), The Wings of Horus (Blackwood), Lord of the Jackals (Rohmer), The Ape (E. F. Benson), and Black Coffee (Jeffery Farnol).

Eight-Legged Marvels explores the diversity of colors, shapes, sizes, and behaviors of spiders around the world. Beyond a basic review of the biology of spiders, it offers incentive to think about beauty and design in a fascinating group of animals.