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| Preface | |
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| An Introduction to Sea Monsters: In Which a Variety of Scaled, Serpentine, Anthropophagous, and Otherwise Terrifying Creatures Are Introduced to the Reader | |
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| The Loch Ness Monster: In Which We Meet the World's Most Famous Sea Serpent, Whose History Has Been Rife with Mystery, Controversy, Sensationalism, and Fraud | |
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| Sea Serpents: Wherein We Encounter a Variety of Gigantic and Otherwise Impressive Cryptozoological Beasts from the Seven Seas and Elsewhere | |
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| Mermaids and Manatees: In Which We Meet Jenny Hannivers, Mermen and their Wives, Sirenians, and Other Anthropomorphistic Creatures of the Sea, Subsequently Revealed to Be Humble and Harmless | |
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| The Kraken: Wherein We Confront the Most Terrifying Creature on Earth: Our Worst Fears Made Flesh, A 60-Foot-Long, Saucer-Eyed Monster of the Abyssal Depths | |
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| The Biology of Squid, Giant and Otherwise: Introducing the Teuthids, a Group of Fascinating Decapod Invertebrates That Range the World's Oceans-Lighting Up, Changing Color, and Even Leaping from the Water | |
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| Leviathan, or, the Whale: In Which We Discuss the Physeter, the Mysticetus, Jasconius, and Other Cetological Wonders Too Large and Marvelous to Be Believed | |
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| Leviathan Versus Kraken: Wherein the Physeter, Largest Vertebrate Predator That Has Ever Lived on Earth, Meets Architeuthis, the Largest and Most Powerful of the Invertebrate Class | |
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| The Octopus as Monster: In Which We Encounter a True Terror of the Depths: the Grim-Visaged Poulpe, with Its Eight Sinuous, Writhing Arms, Gorgon Face, and Deadly Beak | |
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| Biology of the Octopus: In Which We Learn the Truth About the Gentle and Harmless Octopuses, including the Correct Plural | |
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| Blobs and Globsters: Wherein We Encounter Unexplained and Unexplainable Giants That Have Vouchsafed Us a Rare Glimpse of the Heretofore Unknown World of the Depths | |
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| The Shark: In Which the True Nature of the Man-Eating Elasmobranchs Is Revealed, Including Their Forays into Our Waters, Our Subconscious, and Our Cinema | |
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| The New Mythology of Monsters: Wherein the True Nature and Solution of Some of the Mysteries Is Disclosed, While Identifying Others Where No Solution Will Ever Be Known | |
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| After Several Hundred Responsible Citizens Spotted a Sea Serpent off Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1817, the Linnaean Society of Boston Circulated This Questionnaire to the Populace | |
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| The Most Complete and Accurate List of the Historical Sightings and Strandings of Architeuthis Ever Attempted | |
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| In Which We Reproduce the Complete Text of Professor Addison Emery Verrill's 1897 Description of an Unknown Monster That Washed Ashore at St. Augustine, Florida | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |