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.

Popular Library, 1966