Comments on: Strangely Enough, by C.B. Colby

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:57:01 +0000

Wow, this is a flashback for me. I got my hands on this book as a kid and some of the stories still haunt me. The two that I especially remember is the disappearing scenery replaced with “devil’s paintbrush” flowers and the man dragging the coffin in the dark outside a woman’s window.

There was something about his writing style that got to this otherwise hard to perturb boy.

By: alandhopewell

alandhopewell — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:57:42 +0000

I haven’t seen that dark blue cover in years! there was a copy in my grade school library, and I read it when I was ten, back in ’66.

“The Whistle” scared me green.

By: Alonzo

Alonzo — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:15:26 +0000

Great. Now I have another reason to let Chabon get on my nerves.

By: brigidalverson

brigidalverson — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:15:30 +0000

@Jeanne Great minds think alike! I’m so glad there is someone else out there like me! Thanks for dropping by.

By: Jeanne Cunningham

Jeanne Cunningham — Sat, 19 May 2012 04:52:09 +0000

I’m sorry, are you me? I guess that’s the power of the web, that you discover another person out ther haunted by strangely enough and also an affinity for the Betty Crocker cookbooks. Who knew?

By: Len Vanna

Len Vanna — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:49:41 +0000

What a trip down memory lane! I was cleaning my attic, and found 1 hardback and 2 paperback editions of ‘Strangely Enough’. One of the paperbacks is like brand new. When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, about 40 years ago, I ordered the book through our school book club. There was an extra, so I bought it! That’s how much I was drawn to this book! The hardback was found at a used book store.

I browsed the net to see if anyone else was as fascinated by this book as I was \ am. I must say, (as a book collector) that even though the book is probably 95% bullshit, it STILL has a vibe that really intrigues me. It affected my mind young mind as it did yours.

By: Gentron

Gentron — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:27:40 +0000

Ah, the books that used to scare me as a kid! The one that stands out most in my mind, though, is the Dare to Be Scared series. If you haven’t heard of them, they were basically what C.B. Colby wrote: lots of short stories, although these were longer. I still own the second book on my shelf and occaisionally flip through it. I think the books scared me so much because they could take a harmless little subject (like laughing, as I believe was a subject of one story) and turn it into a horrific nightmare. It didn’t help that none of the stories had a good ending: every one ended with someone about to die or suffering some horrific fate. The art, while very simple, is also very macabre: it is composed entirely of black and white lines, even the covers. Somehow this made the books even scarier.

Normally I could zoom through books about alien abductions, strange happenings, and unexplained mysteries without a problem but there was something about the Dare to Be Scared series that really freaked me out.