| Introduction | xiii |
| Natural-born Killer Instinct | xvii |
| Part 1 | Predators Among the Trees | 1 |
| Travels in West Africa | 3 |
| A Devilish Cunning Panther | 20 |
| Headhunting | 30 |
| Among New Guinea's Headhunters | 32 |
| The Rogue Elephant of Aberdare Forest | 54 |
| The Wily Tiger of Mundachipallam | 64 |
| The Spotted Devil of Gummalapur | 84 |
| Vietnam Tigers | 95 |
| Cannibalism in Latin America | 96 |
| The Black Bear of Mysore | 98 |
| The Rostov Ripper | 108 |
| Wolves in Uttar Pradesh | 114 |
| Secret Societies in West Africa | 114 |
| Fly River, New Guinea | 118 |
| Sierra Leone Eating Habits | 120 |
| Part 2 | Blood on the Lowlands | 131 |
| Issedones and Indians | 133 |
| Celts in England | 135 |
| The First Crusade | 136 |
| Sheriff Broth | 141 |
| European "Steak" | 141 |
| Mexican Meals | 143 |
| Native American Cannibalism | 147 |
| Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow | 150 |
| A Ferocious French Wolf | 151 |
| The Franklin Arctic Expedition | 152 |
| Antipodean Cannibalism | 155 |
| Fiji Cannibals | 157 |
| Cannibalism in New Zealand | 158 |
| Aborigine Recipe | 160 |
| Fiji Fancies | 162 |
| Easter Islanders | 166 |
| Horror in the Sahara | 167 |
| Anasazi Man Corn | 170 |
| South Sea Savages | 174 |
| Russia 1918 | 175 |
| African Lions with an Appetite | 176 |
| Stalin's Terror Famine | 178 |
| He Was a Good Lion | 178 |
| Spotted Hyenas Hunt in Packs | 186 |
| White Fury on the Barrens | 187 |
| Tigers in the Sunderbans | 195 |
| Vampire Bites | 196 |
| A Dingo Took the Baby | 197 |
| Polar Bear Invader | 198 |
| China's Tradition of Cannibalism | 200 |
| Venomous Snakes | 205 |
| Bobcat Attack in South Georgia | 226 |
| Cubans Turned Cannibal | 227 |
| Plane Crash in the Arctic | 228 |
| Trampling Elephants | 229 |
| A Leopard in Botswana | 230 |
| Death by White Rhino | 230 |
| Kenyan Devil Worshippers | 231 |
| Bokassa of the Central African Republic | 232 |
| Polar Bear Charge | 235 |
| Cannibalism in Cambodia | 237 |
| Killer Lions of Zimbabwe | 239 |
| Elephant Safari Death | 241 |
| Chances with Wolves | 243 |
| Owl Attacks Human Love Rival | 246 |
| One Dark Night in Ethiopia | 246 |
| Fraser Island Kookaburras | 249 |
| Kenyan Killer Elephant | 250 |
| Honey Bee Horror | 250 |
| Angry African Aardvark | 251 |
| Scotch Steak on the Hoof | 251 |
| Michigan Deer Devil | 252 |
| Venom versus Septic Bite | 252 |
| Panda Power | 253 |
| Elephants in South Africa | 254 |
| In the Tigers' Den | 254 |
| Enraged Hippo in South Africa | 255 |
| Canadian Cougars Pounce | 256 |
| He Ate It, Dr Lecter | 258 |
| Part 3 | Death in the Water | 261 |
| Bold African Crocodiles | 263 |
| The Sufferings of the Crew of the Essex | 270 |
| Dreadful Shipwreck of the George | 285 |
| Men Who Rivalled Jonah | 287 |
| The Burning of the Cospatrick | 290 |
| Matawan Creek Shark Attacks | 294 |
| Who's Who of Crocodilians | 298 |
| Around Lake Rudolf, Africa | 306 |
| A Cunning Crocodile | 308 |
| Bull Sharks | 310 |
| Sharks in the Shallows | 314 |
| Rodney Fox's Shark | 325 |
| Crocodile Baptism in Zambia | 329 |
| Alligator and Crocodile Bites | 329 |
| Diving Horror | 331 |
| Gator Chews Two | 334 |
| Caribbean Family Shipwreck | 335 |
| King of Crocs | 336 |
| Search for a Shark | 337 |
| The Crocodile at Cahill's Crossing | 339 |
| Dominican Boat Disaster | 343 |
| Italian Jaws | 344 |
| California's Bay Area | 347 |
| Brazil Shudders over Killer Crocs | 349 |
| South Australian Waters | 350 |
| Hawaiian Holiday | 352 |
| Killer Gator | 353 |
| Welsh Stingray Attack | 354 |
| Tanzanian Saurians | 354 |
| Muggers in Nepal | 356 |
| The Surf in Brazil | 356 |
| Benin's Crocodiles and Pythons | 358 |
| Crocodile Attacks in Madagascar | 359 |
| Hong Kong Swimming in Blood | 360 |
| Andaman Islands' Salties | 361 |
| Holiday Snaps in French Lake | 363 |
| Crocodile Kills Scotswoman | 364 |
| Crocodile in Harare | 364 |
| Zambezi Explorers | 365 |
| South African Surf | 366 |
| Snap Snack | 368 |
| In the Teeth of Solomon | 369 |
| By the Skin of Our Teeth | 370 |
| Pringle Bay, South Africa | 375 |
| Increase in South African Attacks | 377 |
| Boy Bites Croc Back | 377 |
| South African Killer Crocodiles | 379 |
| Bod in a Cod | 380 |
| The Perils of Oz Waters | 380 |
| Florida Gators Munch | 386 |
| Fatal Penis Attacks | 387 |
| Eight-year-old versus Saltie | 388 |
| Another Italian Great White | 388 |
| Malawi Crocodiles Claim 250 | 389 |
| Death in Shallow Surf | 389 |
| Thirteen-foot Snake | 390 |
| Great Crocs of Oz | 391 |
| Part 4 | Killers Close to Home | 395 |
| Pig's Baby Snack | 397 |
| In the Devil Bush | 397 |
| Maneater in a Railway Carriage | 399 |
| Some Serial Killers | 402 |
| Starvation Diet Soviet Style | 404 |
| Nightmares in the Soviet Union | 406 |
| The Siege of Leningrad | 414 |
| Safari Ants | 417 |
| Gaboon Viper's Revenge | 421 |
| Revenge of the Vampire Bats | 422 |
| Jeffrey Dahmer | 423 |
| Issei Sagawa | 434 |
| White Tiger in Miami | 437 |
| Kiss of the Scorpion Man | 438 |
| South Korean Cannibal Gang | 439 |
| Hungry Brazilians | 440 |
| The Wolf Inside Every Dog | 440 |
| America's Rabid Foxes | 444 |
| Dangerous Critters at Home | 445 |
| Ungrateful Angolan Tiger | 446 |
| L.A. Coyote Tales | 447 |
| Balkash the Siberian Tiger | 448 |
| Streetwalking Cougars | 451 |
| Bustah the Chimpanzee | 452 |
| Chinese Foetus-Eaters | 453 |
| Elephants in South Africa | 457 |
| Cabo the Jungle Cat | 459 |
| A Burmese Python in the Bronx | 462 |
| Russian Cannibalism Flourishes | 463 |
| Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev | 464 |
| Cannibalism by Russian Military | 465 |
| Killer Bees in the USA | 466 |
| Scottish Teddy Bear's Picnic | 467 |
| A Khmer Rouge Cannibal | 468 |
| Miss Daisy Mae Piggy | 470 |
| Red Fire Ants | 471 |
| Rabid Bats Alert | 474 |
| Tapir Teeth | 475 |
| Illinois Brown Bear Munch | 475 |
| Big Snapper in the Big Apple | 476 |
| Taiga Tiger | 477 |
| Bull Elephant in Thailand | 478 |
| Serial Killer Snakes in Nigeria | 479 |
| Malaysian King Cobra | 480 |
| Rabid Dogs | 480 |
| Black Bears in New Mexico | 481 |
| Vodka and People Meat | 482 |
| Dr Doolittle and the Lion | 485 |
| Leopard on the Campus | 486 |
| Black Widow Spiders | 486 |
| Baboons Rampage in Saudi Arabia | 489 |
| Swaziland Baboons | 489 |
| Louis and the Cheetah | 490 |
| Shalini and the Wolf | 490 |
| Wellington Bomber Seagulls | 491 |
| Wild Indian Elephants | 492 |
| Bear in US Home | 492 |
| Frenzied Hornets | 493 |
| Texas Bee Stings | 493 |
| Mistaken Swans | 494 |
| Bolshie British Buzzards | 494 |
| The Belev Cannibal | 495 |
| Cockerel in Romania | 496 |
| Chile Hot Dogs | 496 |
| Boas and Pythons | 497 |
| The Internet Cannibal | 498 |
| Reynard the Fox | 500 |
| Eating Babies Is Art | 501 |
| Rabid Fox in Maine | 502 |
| Man the Florida Lion | 503 |
| Monty's Fatal Squeeze | 505 |
| Norwegian Huskies | 506 |
| Part 5 | Horror in the Uplands | 509 |
| European Neanderthals | 511 |
| Aztec Blood Sacrifices | 512 |
| The Chowgarh Tigers | 517 |
| A Grizzly in Yellowstone | 564 |
| The Andes Air Crash | 565 |
| Wolves and Wild Dogs | 569 |
| Tiger Victim in India | 574 |
| Derek from New Guinea | 575 |
| Clawed to Death in the Rockies | 575 |
| The Black Bears of California | 576 |
| Cannibal Snippets | 580 |
| Killer Cougar of El Dorado | 581 |
| San Diego Mountain Lions | 583 |
| Italian Brown Bears | 587 |
| Thai Tiger | 588 |
| Papua's School for Cannibals | 589 |
| Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag | 591 |
| Banff's Lethal Cougars | 591 |
| The Leopard of Dehra Dun | 593 |
| Cambodian Crocodiles | 593 |
| Deadly Snakes in Nepal | 594 |
| Nepal's Big Cats | 594 |
| Alaskan Stalker | 595 |
| Slovakia's Bears | 596 |
| Killer in the Catskills | 596 |
| The Tiger and Subedar Ali | 598 |
| Acknowledgments and Sources | 601 |
