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Amazing Monsters: Verses to Thrill and Chill

Robert Fisher

First published 1986
Publisher Faber and Faber
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Penny Dann
Pages 96
Price £2.95
ISBN 0571139256

First published in 1982 by the publisher. First published in Faber Paperback in 1986. Cover illustrator credited on back cover. Appending Acknowledgements on pages 89-91, Index of Authors on page 93, Index of First Lines on pages 95-96. Other prices: $6.95 (USA), A$8.95 (Australia, recommended), C$7.95 (Canada) All prices are printed on back cover. Data from an Archive.org copy.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Monster Alphabet Robert Fisher Poem
10 'Be a Monster' Roy Fuller Poem
11 The Marrog R. C. Scriven Poem
13 The Doze James Reeves Poem
14 Oliphaunt J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
15 Hipporhinostricow Spike Milligan Poem
16 The Triantiwontigongolope C. J. Dennis Poem
18 The Spangled Pandemonium Palmer Brown Poem
19 The Bongaloo Spike Milligan Poem
20 A Small Dragon Brian Patten Poem
21 The Ugstabuggle Peter Wesley-Smith Poem
22 The Beast Brian Patten Poem
23 Gruesome Roger McGough Poem
24 A Quadrupedremian Song Thomas Hood Poem
25 The Visitor Jack Prelutsky Poem
26 The Malfeasance Alan Bold Poem
28 The White Monster W. H. Davies Poem
29 The Wendigo Ogden Nash Poem
30 The Bogus-Boo James Reeves Poem
32 The Mewlips J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
34 The Dong with the Luminous Nose Edward Lear Poem
38 The Horny-Goloch Anon Poem
39 The P'eng that was a K'un Robert Graves Poem
40 The Snitterjipe James Reeves Poem
42 The Swank V. C. Vickers Poem
43 The Hidebehind Michael Rosen Poem
44 Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll Poem
46 The Serpent Theodore Roethke Poem
48 The Dragon's Hoard J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
49 The Slithergadee Shel Silverstein Poem
50 The Jam Fish Edward Abbott Parry Poem
51 The Kraken Lord Tennyson Poem
52 Nessie Ted Hughes Poem
55 The Gofongo Spike Milligan Poem
56 The Pobble Who Has No Toes Edward Lear Poem
58 The Moon Bird V. C. Vickers Poem
59 Leviathan John Milton Poem
60 The Bunyip Douglas Stewart Poem
62 The Dinkey-Bird Eugene Field Poem
64 So Big! Max Fatchen Poem
65 The Manatee Carey Blyton Poem
66 Frankenstein Gets His Man Frank Carr Poem
67 The Zobo Bird Frank A. Collymore Poem
69 The Quangle Wangle's Hat Edward Lear Poem
71 The Nonny James Reeves Poem
72 The Sea Serpent Chantey Vachel Lindsay Poem
75 The Roc Edward Lowbury Poem
76 The Phoenix Robert Fisher Poem
77 The Monster Edward Lowbury Poem
78 The Unicorn E. V. Rieu Poem
81 The Centaurs James Stephens Poem
83 Wyvern Charles Connell Poem
85 Minotaur Robert Fisher Poem
86 Out of the Dark Wood Peter, aged 11 Poem