The high elf also appeared in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989).

The drow appear first for this edition in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989), which expands the information on drow society.

The orc appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), which also features the orog, a relative of the orc.

The vampire appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), which also introduced the Eastern vampire.

The cyclops appears first, as a type of giant-kin, in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989).

Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989).

The sharn are reprinted in Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996).

The medusa appears first in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), which also introduces the greater medusa.

Monstrous Compendium Volume Two states that lamia "seem devoted to the spreading of chaos and evil in their dwelling places".

The same set of minimals appeared in second edition in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989).