6Chapter Five: Glen or Glenda
42Chapter Six-C: The Monster and the Man: The Bride of the Monster Shoot, 1954
71952–1953
43Chapter Eight-C: What He Thought: Ed Wood and His Own Films
8Glen or Glenda (1953) — The Film
44Chapter Eight-D: The Novels: Ann Gora and Her Siblings
9Critical Reception: Then and Now
45A Note Before We Begin: On Method, Sources, and Why This Story Matters
10Jail Bait (1954)
46Chapter Four-D: The Lean Years: Hollywood, 1947–1950
11Chapter Six: Bela
47Chapter Seven-C: The Premiere: March 1957 and the Long Wait
121952–1956
48Chapter Eleven-D: Burton: Why Tim Burton Made the Film He Made
13Bride of the Monster (1955) — The Film
49Chapter Five-D: The Amazing Criswell: A Man and His Certainty
14Critical Reception: Then and Now
50Chapter Six-D: Dracula to Destitution: Bela Lugosi in America, 1931–1952
15The Final Months
51Chapter Seven-D: A Day on the Set: November 1956
16Chapter Seven: Plan 9
52Chapter Eight-E: The Typewriter: How the Scripts Were Written
171956–1959
53Chapter Eleven-E: The Medveds: The Men Who Named the Worst
18Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957/1959) — The Film
54Chapter Three-B: The Cowboys: The Western That Never Got Made
19Plan 9: Critical Reception — Then and Now
55Chapter Four-E: The Bottom of the Business: Hollywood's Invisible Majority
20Night of the Ghouls (1958/1983)
56Chapter Twelve-C: The Lineage: Who Ed Wood Made Possible
21Chapter Eight: The Long Slide
57Chapter Three-C: What He Brought Home: The Pacific War and What It Left Behind
221960–1972
58Chapter Seven-E: The Audience He Had: Drive-Ins, Grindhouses, and the People Who Watched
23The Sinister Urge (1960) — The Film
59Coda: The Whole Life: One More Time
24Orgy of the Dead (1965) — The Film
60Chapter Seven-F: What He Believed: Ed Wood and the Question of Faith
25Take It Out in Trade (1970) and Necromania (1971)
61Chapter Eight-F: The Other Films
26Chapter Nine: Kathy: The Marriage
62Jail Bait, Night of the Ghouls, The Sinister Urge
27Chapter Ten: December 10, 1978: The End
63Jail Bait (1954)
28Chapter Eleven: After: 1980–1994
64Night of the Ghouls (1958)
29Chapter Twelve: What It Means: A Reckoning
65The Sinister Urge (1960)
30Chapter Four-B: Dolores: The First Love, 1952–1955
66Selected Filmography
31Chapter Six-B: The Last Year of Bela Lugosi: 1955–1956
67Edward Davis Wood Jr., Director
32Chapter Eight-B: The Decade, Year by Year: 1961–1969
68Feature Films
33Chapter Eleven-B: What the Cult Was: The Anatomy of an Unlikely Love
69Selected Short Films and Additional Credits
34Chapter Two-B: The Angora: A Private Life
70Selected Published Fiction
35Chapter Four-C: The Company He Kept: Hollywood's Lower Registers, 1950–1953
71A Note on Sources: The Record and Its Gaps
36Chapter Five-B: Four Days: The Making of Glen or Glenda, 1952