Strangely Enough

I am in total agreement with the other reviewers here. I first read this book in mid-elementary school, and I loved the delicious goosebumps it gave me. When my family moved in 1974, I lost the book, but I never forgot it. As an adult, recently, I used the power of the Internet to find myself a copy, and I found I enjoyed it every bit as much now as in my childhood. This is the perfect "round the campfire" book. Bring it along on a camping trip and read a few of the tales aloud at night by firelight. It is nearly guaranteed to send a chill up your spine. It's interesting to me that someone else mentioned the "high-pitched whistle and dog" story as one of the most memorable. (Is that creepy or what?) It was my most memorable as well, but every story in the book entertains and spooks. Note to Scholastic: when will you reprint it again?

I have read MANY books in my lifetime, but none have left an everlasting imprint upon me such as this book did. I read it perhaps 30 years ago, when it first came out (I was in grade school; the purchase price was 35 cents!) and have never forgotten some of the tales it told. Since then I have lost my copy, but would like to acquire it again - too bad it is out of print. If you desire to read short bone-chilling, hair-raising tales of the macabre, then this collection is DEFINITELY for you!

A short collection of "true" ghost stories from across America told in a good-natured folksy way. Unlike, for example, Stephen King, which scares the reader with overt description, Strangely Enough is so subtle and so short that the reader doesn't how truly scary it is until the story is already over. The reader will be scared but in a good way.For example, there is the story of a man who one night(in the mountains of P.A.) sees the unlikely scene of two cats dragging the body of a dead cat. Upon seeing him the cats speak to him in a creepy high pitched kitty cat voice, calling by name, imploring him to tell "Molly Mae" that she can finally come home because the old man (the dead cat) was dead.The man flees in terror. Finally, reaching the safety of his home, with his family around him, he sheepishly tells his family what he has seen that night, convinced that it was a dream. When he gets to what the cats actually told him, the family cat(who has been with them for years)looks up, her eyes widen. She looks at her human family as if to say goodbye and jumps out an open window, never to be seen again.Strangely Enough asks the question: Had Molly Mae finally gone home?