Publication:STRNGLNGHB1959

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S488: Supernatural stories

The book I am looking for is 1950-1970s because it was reprinted, maybe '80s. It was paperback, it had an eyeball on the first cover, the second cover had a lightbulb levitating above two hands. All I can remember about it is that it had several short supernatural and horror stories in it. Argh, I know that's not a lot to go on... :0) Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thank you!!

I believe the compilation was called Strangely Enough. That also had an eyeball on the cover and was a collection of supernatural horror stories.

C.B. Colby, The Weirdest People in the World, 1973, approximately. If the companion is Strangely Enough, the one you're looking for is The Weirdest People in the World. Some of the stories were reprinted in the late 80s as The World's Strangest "True" Ghost Stories.

Colby, C. B., Strangely enough!, c 1959, '63, '66, '72. The original 1958 Sterling hardcover ed. had the tops of alien heads/skulls? coming over the tops of yellow, orange and purple sand dunes? with footprints and a radio tower in the background. The 1963 abriged Scholastic paperback has the lightbulb levitating over hands and water. It looks like about 10 stories were dropped from the original '59 ed., though they both have over 90 stories. I don't have the '66 or '72 eds. so I don' know if they have an eyeball on the cover. Some of the titles are: The Light in the Window, The lady on the Highway, The Seabird, Witchs Revenge, Daniel Abbott, Battle of the Cheeses, "Lavender", Cigar in the Sky, Yonkers Saucer, Ghosts That Followed a Ship, etc.

Table of Contents

These contents are from an OCR scan of the Scholastic T 438 (12th printing, April 1971) edition of Strangely Enough! and have not been double-checked for accuracy other than a basic spelling check. All of the stories are non-fiction essays by C. B. Colby though he notes in the acknowledgments and introduction that the original stories are from many sources.

Contents from page iii
The Light in the Window	1
The Lady on the Highway	3
The Seabird	5
Preview of Tragedy	7
Witch’s Revenge	8
Daniel Abbott	10
Falling Objects from Heaven	12
The Recovered Painting	14
Battle of the Cheeses	15
“Lavender"	18
The Coin-filled Boots	20
Maximilian’s Millions	22
Lost TV Signal	24
Phantom Schooner	26
Bandit’s Buried Loot	28
New England’s Darkest Day	30
The Sporting Sea Gull	32
Antique Saucer	34
Cigar in the Sky	36
Yonkers Saucer	38
Ghosts That Followed a Ship	40
'The Tiger Trainer	42
The Painting in the Cavern	45
Phantom Brig	47
Trap-gun Mystery	49
Lost Inca Treasure	51
R-101 Mystery	53
Contents from page iv
The Doomed Sentry	55
Fireballs	57
The Ghost in the Graveyard	59
Phantom Stagecoach	61
The Haunted Bow	63
Warning of Disaster	65
The Vanishing Riverboat	67
Great Lakes Gold	69
Ice from Heaven	72
Babe in the Woods	73
Lost Countries	75
The Story of John Wilson	77
The Devil Comes to Church	79
The Sawdust Pile	81
The Witch on the Colt’s Neck	83
Lord Dufferin’s Story	85
The Old Chief’ s Tomahawk	87
The Indian Guide	89
The Bewitched Cat of the Catskills	91
The Balls of Clay	93
Moonlight Ghost of Middleton	95
The Army That Disappeared	97
Amelia Island Legend	99
Marie Antoinette’s Necklace	101
The Suicide Tree	103
The Lost City of Machu Picchu	105
Sunken Ships	107
Black Knight of Canterbury	109
The White Dove	111
Gasparilla’s Legacy	113
The Sealed Cave	115
The Señora of Cottage Gardens	117
Contents from page v
Card Game at Buxton Inn	119
The Horse with the Braids	121
The Gauntlet in the Castle	123
Great Wheel of Light	125
Ruby Cat	127
Haunted Schoolhouse	129
The Man Who Fell Forever	131
The Bottled Ghost	133
Hessian Booty	135
The Man in the Golden Armor	137
No Grass on the Grave	139
The Frightened Dog	141
Unexpected Trip	143
Lake of Gold	145
The Doctor’s Visitor	147
Women in White	149
The Whistle	151
St. Elmo’s Fire	153
Clear-sky Showers	155
Tragedy Atop the Glacier	157
Eskimo Village	159
The Spell of the Mirror	161
Mule-pen Treasure	163
Swamp Pirate	165
Wolves on the Roof	167
Real-life Jonah	170
Silver-plated Beef	172
Footprints in the Snow	174
The Barbados Vault	176
“Money Lights” of South America	178
Ocean-born Mary	180
Flight into Oblivion	183

Copyright page

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not be resold, lent, or otherwise circulated in any binding or cover other than that in which it is published—unless prior written permission has been obtained from the publisher—and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Copyright © l959 by C. B. Colby. Copyright © l963 by Scholastic Magazines, Inc. This edition is published by Scholastic Book Services, a division of Scholastic Magazines, Inc., by arrangement with Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 12th printing ………………………… April 1971 Printed in the U.S.A.