The World Around Us
#24 - The Illustrated Story of Ghosts
(August 1960)
Gilberton,
1958 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1960-06-08
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gilberton World-Wide Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Classics Illustrated Publication
- Editing
- Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht
Issue Notes
Printed in the U.S.A. Information for this index supplied partly by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
The Illustrated Story of Ghosts
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Ghost
- Reprints
-
in Unsere Welt Illustrierte (BSV - Williams, 1961 series) #13 [gespiegelt] -
in Wereld in beeld (Classics/Williams, 1960 series) #13 - Spoken ([1961]) [gespiegeld/mirrored] -
in World Illustrated (Thorpe & Porter, 1960 series) #513 - Story of Ghosts ([1961]) -
in Alt i bilder (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1960 series) #13 - Spøkelser ([1961]) [mirrored]
-
- Keywords
- Ghost; haunted house
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Most of us have probably never seen a ghost face to faceless.
- Characters
- Witch
- Reprints
The Hitchhiker
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Late one Saturday night, a doctor was driving home after a call on a patient.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Doctor; young woman; parents
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Cemetery; ghost; hitchhiker
Indexer Notes
Besides telling the story, this piece includes a one-page discussion of variants on this persistent and widespread tale.
Room for the Night
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Like the tale of the ghostly hitch-hiker, this story has been told many times.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Husband; wife; Mrs. Jenkins; counterman
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Ghost; haunted house
The Ghost of Gold Gulch
comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One day, long before movie stars or the Dodgers came to California, a salesman from way back east in St. Louis brought his wares to a little mining town called Gold Gulch.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Salesman; cowboys; Pete (bartender); Old Matt
- Synopsis
- A man who loves beer and despises water keeps sipping the drinks of men in the saloon.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- California; ghost; saloon
The Chinese Sage
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A woman was kneeling by a grave in a North China province.
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- Confucius
- Synopsis
- The life and thought of Confucius.
- Keywords
- China; Confucianism
Ghosts That Make a Racket
comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The word poltergeist is German for 'ghost that makes a racket.'
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Description of the supposed actions of poltergeists.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Poltergeist
The House of Flying Objects
comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On February 3, 1958, a housewife in Long Island, New York, heard a loud popping noise coming from the basement of her home.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Mother; father; Allen; Robin; detective; policeman
- Synopsis
- A family suffers a spell of mysterious and frightening events.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Long Island; New York; poltergeist
Indexer Notes
The story states that these events began on February 3, 1958, but that all names have been changed. The story is based on events that supposedly took place at the Hermann house in the town of Seaford.
The Talking Mongoose
comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In 1931, Mr. and Mrs. James Irving and their daughter Voirrey lived on a farm on the Isle of Man's Dalby Mountain.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Mr. Irving; Mrs. Irving; Voirrey; Gef
- Synopsis
- A being claiming to be a talking mongoose terrorizes a family.
- Keywords
- Isle of Man; mongoose; poltergeist
The Mummy's Foot
text story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I had strolled into the Paris shop of one of those dealers in curiosities.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Narrator; curiosity seller; Princess Hermonthis; Pharaoh; Alfred
- Synopsis
- The narrator reunites a long-dead princess with her mummified foot.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Mummy; Paris; pharaoh
The Mysterious Lake
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The sun beat down on the desert sands.
- Genre
- non-fiction; nature
- Synopsis
- How, why, and when mirages appear.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Mirage
The Sixth Sense
comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All through the ages, there have been stories about objects moving when no one is near, and about people who can see into the future, guess what others are thinking, and know what is happening far away.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Carl; Dave; students; bus passengers; Emanuel Swedenborg; mother; father; Tom; bus driver; Carl Jung [Dr. C. G. Jung]
- Synopsis
- Examples of different types of supposed extrasensory perception.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Clairvoyance; e.s.p.; extrasensory perception; mental telepathy; parapsychology; precognition
The Yellow Star
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A decree had been issued in Nazi Germany.
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Keywords
- Antisemitism; Denmark; Holocaust; persecution
The Scientific Search
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Many institutions throughout the world are doing research on extrasensory perception.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Scientists; test subjects
- Synopsis
- Scientific researchers at Duke University design and conduct experiments testing for extrasensory perception.
- Reprints
- in Alt i bilder (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1960 series) #13 - Spøkelser ([1961]) [minus 3 pages]
-
- Keywords
- Clairvoyance; Duke University; E.S.P.; extrasensory perception; North Carolina; parapsychology; precognition; telekinesis
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Illustrated Story of Ghosts
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1.
The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales
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2.
["Most of us have probably never seen a ghost face to faceless."]
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3.
The Hitchhiker
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4.
Room for the Night
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5.
The Ghost of Gold Gulch
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6.
The Chinese Sage
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7.
Ghosts That Make a Racket
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8.
The House of Flying Objects
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9.
The Talking Mongoose
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10.
Olga's Revenge
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11.
The Mummy's Foot
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12.
The Mysterious Lake
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13.
The Sixth Sense
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14.
The Yellow Star
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15.
The Scientific Search
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16.
A Question of Ghosts
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17.
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