The Vampire: he needed human blood to live -- what was he to do when mankind died out?
The Mermaid: she came from beneath the sea -- and left a soul-shaking secret behind her
The Invader: he fathered a child of an Earth-woman -- but forgot the fury of a woman scorned
The Werewolf: it was the mating season -- would he take a woman ... or a she-wolf?
The Explorer: no human being could survive on the giant planet, so he had to become ... something else
The Last Man on Earth: he was alone -- until he found the last woman
Sixteen top authors tell the stories of these and other fantastic beings who live in the strange universe off the beaten orbit.
Contains the story 'Share Alike', by Jerome Bixby and Joe E. Dean, featuring a vampire and a human, thrown together out of necessity, but developing a very intimate bond.
Two men are the only two to escape from a sinking ship. Trapped together in a life raft, hoping to be found, one man discovers that the other is a vampire.
The two develop a symbiotic relationship, of sorts. Both hoping that they'll be discovered before the food runs out.