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After sitting through the entire run of Tower of Shadows/Creatures on the Loose, I've come to the conclusion that virtually nothing from the early anthology issues is canon, outside of hosts Digger and Headstone P. Gravely.

From what the stories and handbooks seem to suggest, those two tell spooky stories to nameless passersby inside Earth-616 canon, but there's no evidence any of the tales they tell are actual canon, or based on "fact" or "real life" (at least inside Earth-616). The only exceptions I'm finding in Tower are the first story in, and Story 2 in.

Creatures on the Loose is a bit more varied, especially as they did away with the one-off anthology style. Story 1 in is an early exception, and issues #30-37 feature an arc focused on Man-Wolf.

Creatures also features two other short arcs in later issues: "Gullivar Jones", an Edgar Rice Burrows adaptation that ran from Creatures on the Loose #16-21, and Thongor, an adaptation of an original Conan-esque character from writer Lin Carter that ran in Creatures #22-29. I'm still unclear whether these fall into canon or not. Aside from brief bullet points in the Appendix master list, there's no mentions of the stories or characters that I can find outside of these issues. Thongor may be in the Conan handbook, which I do not own a copy of, but that's a stretch. These two may also end up being non-canon.