| Introduction: Ghost Riders | p. xi |
| Prologue: The Pillar in the Storm | p. xxi |
| The Thunder House | |
| The Electricians | p. 3 |
| To Treat Master Franklin | p. 21 |
| The Finger of God | p. 88 |
| Premonitory Symptoms | p. 130 |
| Violent Local Storms | p. 152 |
| How to Escape | p. 165 |
| The Desert Is No More | p. 180 |
| A Little More of the Marvelous | p. 13 |
| The Storm War | |
| The So-Called Tornado | p. 31 |
| Under the Map | p. 63 |
| One Dead, One Exhausted, One Converted | p. 78 |
| The Philosophy of Storms | p. 46 |
| Red Wind and Tornado Green | |
| The Great American Desert | p. 101 |
| The Night Watch | p. 118 |
| The Book of Failure | p. 188 |
| An Awful Commotion | p. 198 |
| The Mystery of Severe Storms | |
| Canvas and Cellophane | p. 207 |
| The Unfriendly Sky | p. 217 |
| Visible Effects of the Invisible | p. 238 |
| Epilogue: The Wild Hunt | p. 250 |
| A Note on Sources | p. 261 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 267 |