The Lady, or the Tiger? door on his right, which he opens. The outcome of this choice is not revealed. Instead, the narrator departs from the story to summarize the princess's state of mind and her thoughts about directing the accused to one fate or the other, as she will lose him to either death or marriage. She contemplates the pros and cons of each option, though notably considering the lady more. "And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the opened door – the lady, or the tiger?" Stockton later wrote "The Discourager of Hesitancy," a follow-up to "The
Dire animal updated versions of the monsters published in "Masters of the Wild". The monsters are listed here: dire elephant, dire elk, dire horse, dire hawk, dire snake, and dire toad. The third edition "Fiend Folio" introduced one new dire animal, the dire rhinoceros"'. "Races of Stone" introduced the dire eagle. "Frostburn" introduces numerous dire animals more suited to cold environments. Many of them are not named 'dire [animal name]' but are still counted as dire animals. They are listed here: dire polar bear, megaloceros, glyptodon, sabretoothed tiger, wooly mammoth, and zeuglodon. "Libris Mortis" does not technically introduce any dire animals, however,