Intelligent ants with their own civilizations, killer moths, apocalyptic bees, mind-bending butterflies, supernatural spiders, giant arachnids, and many more. Stories include:
- The Sphinx (1846, Edgar Allan Poe)
- The Blue Beetle: A Confession (1856, A. G. Gray, Jr.)
- The Strong Spider (1869, Henry Abbey)
- The Queen of the Bees (1876, tr., Erckmann-Chatrian)
- The Crab Spider (1893, tr., Erckmann-Chatrian)
- A Moth - Genus Novo (1895, H. G. Wells)
- The Purple Emperor (1897, Robert W. Chambers)
- The Messenger (1897, Robert W. Chambers)
- The Captivity of the Professor (1901, A. Lincoln Green)
- The Valley of the Spiders (1903, H. G. Wells)
- The Ash-Tree (1904, M. R. James)
- The Great White Moth (1904, Fred M. White)
- The Green Spider (1904, Sax Rohmer)
- The Empire of the Ants (1905, H. G. Wells)
- The Lace Designers (1907, Don Mark Lemon)
- The Feather Pillow (1907, Horacio Quiroga)
- Caterpillars (1912, E. F. Benson)
- The Golden Fly (1912, Algernon Blackwood)
- The Red Spider (1915, H. B. Holt)
- An Egyptian Hornet (1915, Algernon Blackwood)
- The Spider (1915, Hans Heinz Ewers)
- The Eggs of the Silver Moon (1915, Robert W. Chambers)
- The Blue Cockroach (1919, Edward Heron-Allen)
- The Gold-Seekers (1920, Al Khanzir)
- The Spectre Spiders (1921, William J. Wintle)
- The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika (1926, Curt Siodmak)
- Mive (1928, Carl Jacobi)
- The Worm (1929, David H. Keller)
- Vampires of the Desert (1929, A. Hyatt Verrill)
- The Bees from Borneo (1931, Will H. Gray).
