THE UNKNOWN by Brad Steiger

One of Steiger's earliest books, yet another rapid fire goulash of ghosts and ghouls. No table of contents, no intro, no outro, just a slam bam surfeit of spooky tales, most of them one or two pages at most. Sources? Forget about it! Steiger recycles two ghost ships from Frank Edwards' Strangest of All, the Marlborough and the Iron Mountain, both of which somehow became posthumous paranormal mysteries after disappearing in the treacherous Antarctic Circle iceberg fields and "running aground after hitting an obstruction," respectively. Other entries include the lurid "Castle Freak" legend of the Monster of Glamis, a pair of GIs' death premonitions in Vietnam, and myriad and sundry ghosts too many to count. Steiger would later reuse the very first chapter on missing child Donald Lee Baker and others in his 1972 Strange Disappearances.

This book was owned by Bill Taylor, and is available to read and download at archive dot org.

Table of contents:

1.  California's Forest of Missing Children (5)

2.  The Horrible Hag of Detroit (8)

3.  The Monster Makers (13)

4.  The Haunting of Beaver Lodge (16)

5.  The Ship with the Dead Crew (21)

6.  The Ice-Skating Sisters of Central Park (23)

7.  The Civil War's Marching Ghosts (26)

8.  The Phantom Sioux Warrior Who Races Trains (29)

9.  Mrs. Guppy's Incredible Flight (31)

10. The Riverboat That Vanished (33)

11. Curse of the Werewolf (35)

12. The Vision That Saved a Scalping Victim's Life (39)

13. Ghosts Still Fight on Corregidor (44)

14. Michigan's Port of Vanishing People (46)

15. The Vision That Told of Where the Body Was (48)

16. The Cloud That Paralyzed a Steamship (50)

17. Premonitions of Death in Vietnam (52)

18. The Phantom Nightwalker of Nago (54)

19. The Monster of Glamis (56)

20. The Royal Family's Country Ghost (59)

21. The Phantom Nun of Borley (60)

22. The Ghostly Foxhounds and the Phantom Huntsman (63)

23. Telepathy From a 2000-Year-Old Grave (67)

24. The Apparition That Hanged a Murderer (69)

25. The Day it Rained Flesh (73)

26. The Secretary Who Stepped Into the Past (75)

27. Minnesota's Lost Race of Giants (78)

28. The Indian Curse That Destroyed a State Capital (81)

29. The Horror of Crowley's Curse (83)

30. The Ghost That Gave Fishermen a Skull (85)

31. The Madonna on the Wall (87)

32. The Many Faces of Miss Beauchamp (90)

33. The Shepherd Who Heals with His Hands (93)

34. Was There a Lost Continent of Atlantis? (96)

35. The Girl Ghost of White Rock Lake (99)

36. The Monster of Deadman's Hole (101)

37. The Pittsfield Ghost Train (103)

38. The Haunt of Bailey's Prairie (104)

39. Spook Light of Chinati Mountain (105)

40. The Man Who Married a Ghost (107)

41. The Pretty Ghost in Culzean Castle (109)

42. The Vanishing Marquis (111)

43. The Ghost That Struck Oil (113)

44. The Jealous Ghost of Lover's Lane (115)

45. Ghostly Footsteps in Foster's Tavern (117)

46. The Ghost That Comes to Church (118)

47. Trouble at the Fairy Mound (120)

48. The "Irish Lourdes" (122)

49. The Invisible People of Iceland (124)

50. The Invisible Organist (126)

51. Louie, the Knocking Ghost (127)

Popular Library, 1966