Dates
- Cover date
- August 1960
- On sale
- June 8, 1960
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Hitchhiker · 7 pages
A doctor finds a young woman standing in the rain, and offers her a ride home. She disappears before he finds the house, where the parents tell him that their daughter was killed in a car crash, and that he is not the first driver who has tried to give her a ride home.
- Room for the Night · 6 pages
A lost couple find hospitality with elderly Mrs. Jenkins, and surreptitiously leave her an envelope with money when they depart. Being told that the house had burned down exactly a year earlier, killing Mrs. Jenkins, they return to investigate. They find the house in ruins, but they also find their envelope and money.
- The Ghost of Gold Gulch · 5 pages
A man who loves beer and despises water keeps sipping the drinks of men in the saloon.
- The Chinese Sage · 1 pages
The life and thought of Confucius.
- Ghosts That Make a Racket · 1 pages
Description of the supposed actions of poltergeists.
- The House of Flying Objects · 7 pages
A family suffers a spell of mysterious and frightening events.
- The Talking Mongoose · 9 pages
A being claiming to be a talking mongoose terrorizes a family.
- Olga's Revenge · 1 pages
Kiev is defeated in battle, and its prince slain. But widowed Princess Olga outwits the would-be conquerors.
- The Mummy's Foot · 5 pages
The narrator reunites a long-dead princess with her mummified foot.
- The Mysterious Lake · 1 pages
How, why, and when mirages appear.
- The Sixth Sense · 10 pages
Examples of different types of supposed extrasensory perception.
- The Yellow Star · 1 pages
A Nazi order that Jews must wear identifying badges meets surprising resistance in various parts of Europe. The Danish government refuses to collaborate, and the Danish underground spirits 6000 of the country's 7500 Jews to safety.
- The Scientific Search · 8 pages
Scientific researchers at Duke University design and conduct experiments testing for extrasensory perception.