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.




 * colspan=2|Contents from page iii
 * ''The Light in the Window|| align=right| 1
 * ''The Lady on the Highway|| align=right| 3
 * ''The Seabird|| align=right| 5
 * ''Preview of Tragedy|| align=right| 7
 * ''Witch’s Revenge|| align=right| 8
 * Daniel Abbott|| align=right| 10
 * Falling Objects from Heaven|| align=right| 12
 * The Recovered Painting|| align=right| 14
 * Battle of the Cheeses|| align=right| 15
 * “Lavender"|| align=right| 18
 * The Coin-filled Boots|| align=right| 20
 * Maximilian’s Millions|| align=right| 22
 * Lost TV Signal|| align=right| 24
 * Phantom Schooner|| align=right| 26
 * Bandit’s Buried Loot|| align=right| 28
 * New England’s Darkest Day|| align=right| 30
 * The Sporting Sea Gull|| align=right| 32
 * Antique Saucer|| align=right| 34
 * Cigar in the Sky|| align=right| 36
 * Yonkers Saucer|| align=right| 38
 * Ghosts That Followed a Ship|| align=right| 40
 * 'The Tiger Trainer|| align=right| 42
 * The Painting in the Cavern|| align=right| 45
 * Phantom Brig|| align=right| 47
 * Trap-gun Mystery|| align=right| 49
 * Lost Inca Treasure|| align=right| 51
 * R-101 Mystery|| align=right| 53
 * colspan=2|Contents from page iv
 * The Doomed Sentry|| align=right| 55
 * Fireballs|| align=right| 57
 * The Ghost in the Graveyard|| align=right| 59
 * Phantom Stagecoach|| align=right| 61
 * The Haunted Bow|| align=right| 63
 * Warning of Disaster|| align=right| 65
 * The Vanishing Riverboat|| align=right| 67
 * Great Lakes Gold|| align=right| 69
 * Ice from Heaven|| align=right| 72
 * Babe in the Woods|| align=right| 73
 * Lost Countries|| align=right| 75
 * The Story of John Wilson|| align=right| 77
 * The Devil Comes to Church|| align=right| 79
 * The Sawdust Pile|| align=right| 81
 * The Witch on the Colt’s Neck|| align=right| 83
 * Lord Dufferin’s Story|| align=right| 85
 * The Old Chief’ s Tomahawk|| align=right| 87
 * The Indian Guide|| align=right| 89
 * The Bewitched Cat of the Catskills|| align=right| 91
 * The Balls of Clay|| align=right| 93
 * Moonlight Ghost of Middleton|| align=right| 95
 * The Army That Disappeared|| align=right| 97
 * Amelia Island Legend|| align=right| 99
 * Marie Antoinette’s Necklace|| align=right| 101
 * The Suicide Tree|| align=right| 103
 * The Lost City of Machu Picchu|| align=right| 105
 * Sunken Ships|| align=right| 107
 * Black Knight of Canterbury|| align=right| 109
 * The White Dove|| align=right| 111
 * Gasparilla’s Legacy|| align=right| 113
 * The Sealed Cave|| align=right| 115
 * The Señora of Cottage Gardens|| align=right| 117
 * colspan=2|Contents from page v
 * Card Game at Buxton Inn|| align=right| 119
 * The Horse with the Braids|| align=right| 121
 * The Gauntlet in the Castle|| align=right| 123
 * Great Wheel of Light|| align=right| 125
 * Ruby Cat|| align=right| 127
 * Haunted Schoolhouse|| align=right| 129
 * The Man Who Fell Forever|| align=right| 131
 * The Bottled Ghost|| align=right| 133
 * Hessian Booty|| align=right| 135
 * The Man in the Golden Armor|| align=right| 137
 * No Grass on the Grave|| align=right| 139
 * The Frightened Dog|| align=right| 141
 * Unexpected Trip|| align=right| 143
 * Lake of Gold|| align=right| 145
 * The Doctor’s Visitor|| align=right| 147
 * Women in White|| align=right| 149
 * The Whistle|| align=right| 151
 * St. Elmo’s Fire|| align=right| 153
 * Clear-sky Showers|| align=right| 155
 * Tragedy Atop the Glacier|| align=right| 157
 * Eskimo Village|| align=right| 159
 * The Spell of the Mirror|| align=right| 161
 * Mule-pen Treasure|| align=right| 163
 * Swamp Pirate|| align=right| 165
 * Wolves on the Roof|| align=right| 167
 * Real-life Jonah|| align=right| 170
 * Silver-plated Beef|| align=right| 172
 * Footprints in the Snow|| align=right| 174
 * The Barbados Vault|| align=right| 176
 * “Money Lights” of South America|| align=right| 178
 * Ocean-born Mary|| align=right| 180
 * Flight into Oblivion|| align=right| 183
 * }
 * The Bewitched Cat of the Catskills|| align=right| 91
 * The Balls of Clay|| align=right| 93
 * Moonlight Ghost of Middleton|| align=right| 95
 * The Army That Disappeared|| align=right| 97
 * Amelia Island Legend|| align=right| 99
 * Marie Antoinette’s Necklace|| align=right| 101
 * The Suicide Tree|| align=right| 103
 * The Lost City of Machu Picchu|| align=right| 105
 * Sunken Ships|| align=right| 107
 * Black Knight of Canterbury|| align=right| 109
 * The White Dove|| align=right| 111
 * Gasparilla’s Legacy|| align=right| 113
 * The Sealed Cave|| align=right| 115
 * The Señora of Cottage Gardens|| align=right| 117
 * colspan=2|Contents from page v
 * Card Game at Buxton Inn|| align=right| 119
 * The Horse with the Braids|| align=right| 121
 * The Gauntlet in the Castle|| align=right| 123
 * Great Wheel of Light|| align=right| 125
 * Ruby Cat|| align=right| 127
 * Haunted Schoolhouse|| align=right| 129
 * The Man Who Fell Forever|| align=right| 131
 * The Bottled Ghost|| align=right| 133
 * Hessian Booty|| align=right| 135
 * The Man in the Golden Armor|| align=right| 137
 * No Grass on the Grave|| align=right| 139
 * The Frightened Dog|| align=right| 141
 * Unexpected Trip|| align=right| 143
 * Lake of Gold|| align=right| 145
 * The Doctor’s Visitor|| align=right| 147
 * Women in White|| align=right| 149
 * The Whistle|| align=right| 151
 * St. Elmo’s Fire|| align=right| 153
 * Clear-sky Showers|| align=right| 155
 * Tragedy Atop the Glacier|| align=right| 157
 * Eskimo Village|| align=right| 159
 * The Spell of the Mirror|| align=right| 161
 * Mule-pen Treasure|| align=right| 163
 * Swamp Pirate|| align=right| 165
 * Wolves on the Roof|| align=right| 167
 * Real-life Jonah|| align=right| 170
 * Silver-plated Beef|| align=right| 172
 * Footprints in the Snow|| align=right| 174
 * The Barbados Vault|| align=right| 176
 * “Money Lights” of South America|| align=right| 178
 * Ocean-born Mary|| align=right| 180
 * Flight into Oblivion|| align=right| 183
 * }
 * The Man in the Golden Armor|| align=right| 137
 * No Grass on the Grave|| align=right| 139
 * The Frightened Dog|| align=right| 141
 * Unexpected Trip|| align=right| 143
 * Lake of Gold|| align=right| 145
 * The Doctor’s Visitor|| align=right| 147
 * Women in White|| align=right| 149
 * The Whistle|| align=right| 151
 * St. Elmo’s Fire|| align=right| 153
 * Clear-sky Showers|| align=right| 155
 * Tragedy Atop the Glacier|| align=right| 157
 * Eskimo Village|| align=right| 159
 * The Spell of the Mirror|| align=right| 161
 * Mule-pen Treasure|| align=right| 163
 * Swamp Pirate|| align=right| 165
 * Wolves on the Roof|| align=right| 167
 * Real-life Jonah|| align=right| 170
 * Silver-plated Beef|| align=right| 172
 * Footprints in the Snow|| align=right| 174
 * The Barbados Vault|| align=right| 176
 * “Money Lights” of South America|| align=right| 178
 * Ocean-born Mary|| align=right| 180
 * Flight into Oblivion|| align=right| 183
 * }
 * The Spell of the Mirror|| align=right| 161
 * Mule-pen Treasure|| align=right| 163
 * Swamp Pirate|| align=right| 165
 * Wolves on the Roof|| align=right| 167
 * Real-life Jonah|| align=right| 170
 * Silver-plated Beef|| align=right| 172
 * Footprints in the Snow|| align=right| 174
 * The Barbados Vault|| align=right| 176
 * “Money Lights” of South America|| align=right| 178
 * Ocean-born Mary|| align=right| 180
 * Flight into Oblivion|| align=right| 183
 * }
 * Footprints in the Snow|| align=right| 174
 * The Barbados Vault|| align=right| 176
 * “Money Lights” of South America|| align=right| 178
 * Ocean-born Mary|| align=right| 180
 * Flight into Oblivion|| align=right| 183
 * }
 * Ocean-born Mary|| align=right| 180
 * Flight into Oblivion|| align=right| 183
 * }
 * }
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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.
 * This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not be
 * This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not be

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.
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