ARCHIVAL UPDATES: STRANGE ENCOUNTERS WITH GHOSTS & WEIRD UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

Two more by Brad Steiger are now available to read and download: Weird Unsolved Mysteries (as Eric Norman) and Strange Encounters With Ghosts, from Award Books and Popular Library, respectively. These are two of Brad's better books, with juicy stories and good organization, so check 'em out!

Original reviews are here and here.

COVER UPDATES: STRANGELY ENOUGH, PART TWO!

Another edition of C.B. Colby's influential Forteana title Strangely Enough!, this time from Popular Library using their uncredited house style of cameo illustrations.

Courtesy those scalawags at (of course) the Popular Library, 1959 (original pub. 1940).

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: MORE STRANGE SMITH

Two more strange Warren Smith volumes are now available to read and download at archive dot org: Into the Strange and Strange Women of the Occult.

Once again, this marks the digital debut of both titles. Revisit true strange wonders like Italian Superman Agostino Colli (he has two hearts!) and the fearsome Ape Woman of Patang. Previous reviews are here and here.

The incredible Agostino lifts a jeep!

Both titles are courtesy Popular Library, 1968-1969.

MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: The Great Lakes Triangle

A new zone of terror, from The Great Lakes Triangle by Jay Gourley. Says Gourley:

There exists within the United States and Canada - principally between longitudes 76° west and 92° west and between latitudes 41° north and 49º north - a region in which several peculiar events have been recorded. The concentration of such events is far greater than any random statistical dispersion would place within these narrow boundaries. The region, on the whole, is sparsely populated, but there are areas of dense population within it. The principal geographic features of this region are five freshwater lakes.

Courtesy Fontana Books, 1977. 

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: MORE STRANGE STEIGER

Three more strange Brad Steiger volumes are now available to read and download on archive dot org:

The Unknown

Beyond Unseen Boundaries

Strange Men and Women

This marks the digital debut of all three titles! Reacquaint yourself with such luminaries as the hideous Monster of Glamis, history mysteries like Edgar Allan Poe's missing bones, and dangerous adventure like Dr. Jeanne-Marie-Therese Koffman's search for the Abominable Snowman! These strange tales and many, many more are packed into these early titles from Steiger. Previous reviews are here, here, and here.

A bonny lass who knows how to get ahead!

All three titles are courtesy Popular Library, 1966-1967.

COSMIC DEBRIS: Astro-Word Puzzle

It's fun for all with our big 500th post! Theme: authors and their birth-signs. From Dell's Horoscope magazine, Volume 41 - Number 11, November 1975.

STRANGE WORLD: Midwest Monster

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Here's a copy of Brad Steiger's syndicated "Strange World" column from the early '70s, which was "carried in 80 American newspapers and publications around the world." Here Brad reuses a Bigfoot story from prior work and adds a newer story on top.

Steiger had previously used the first story of the student outside Rochester, MN, in New UFO Breakthrough with Joan Whritenour, and The Abominable Snowmen, writing as Eric Norman. In these books the student is christened "Bob." The second tale is from 1970 and so postdates those works, though it does turn up alongside Bob's tale in a chapter on "Ghost Monsters of the Midwest" in 1972's Strange Encounters With Ghosts. In terror tale number two, truck driver John Hartsworth describes the creature he saw (and Mike Busby tangled with!) as looking like "a giant cat running on its hind legs" ... yowza!

Close up on that little scamp

Clipped from the Santa Clarita Valley Signal, March 3rd, 1972.