Eleven classic stories of adventure, exploration, and extreme zoology as humanity discovers there are things that bump, growl, and bite in the darkness. From Robert Duncan Milne’s ‘The Iguanodon’ (1882), a tale of prehistoric resurrection in the jungles of Papua, to invisible horrors from remote outposts, ghastly creatures from the sea, and other strange, sometimes unearthly, beasts, people find that Nature has plenty of surprises in store.