This mysterious story captured every bit of my young imagination at the time, especially since the teacher had assigned us to make up our own stories based on the original Harris Burdick illustrations and captions. Even after all these years the story still holds its original appeal for me. All of the illustrations have an ethereal yet dark quality about them and leave me wanting to know more.
MR. LINDEN'S LIBRARY
"He had warned her about the book. Now it was too late."
THE SEVEN CHAIRS
"The fifth one ended up in France."
THE THIRD-FLOOR BEDROOM
"It all began when someone left the window open."
JUST DESERT
"She lowered the knife and it grew even brighter."
If I remember correctly, I chose to write my story on the wallpaper bird about to fly out the bedroom window. You can see more Harris Burdick illustrations along with a better version of the story right here.
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Hmm. I've never heard of Harris Burdick, but it definitely sounds eerie! Interesting, too. The illustration are really lovely! Great, interesting post!
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wow .. like u this definitely captured my attention ..
im a sucker for mysterious things
i've never heard of him, but those illustrations are goegeous!
Oh my goodness, I've never heard of Harris Burdick. I'm so so glad you posted this. The illustrations are exquisite and just a little spooky. The story only adds to that feeling. It's amazing how much of a story can be told with the pictures and just a few words. Thanks so much for sharing these.
Oh and the bird wallpaper one is definitely my favorite too.
This is so cool! My favorite is the window one.
My goodness, this is amazing!! I'm so glad you shared this because I am completely interested now. I especially love the photo for "The Seven Chairs" and the provided caption. Srsly, I want to know what happened to the rest of the chairs and why the fifth one ended up in France.
These are so lovely, I've never come across them before. I love creepy in a good way things like this. What an interesting story.
wow...I've never heard of Harris Burdick before, but those illustrations are definitely freaky and captivating. It's funny how things like that from childhood can stick in your head for so long
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Ooooh, sounds weird. These pictures are interesting.
so rad. i love his illustrations.
These remind me so much of when I used to read Alfred Hitchcock's short stories as a kid. The illustrations from those books were very similar. I loved them.
The one with the orbs floating over the little sleeping boy is my favorite, only because my neighbor told me she had filmed three floating orbs over her sleeping three year old daughter.
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These are marvelous. The illustrations are wonderful.
Oh my god, we did that in my 3rd grade class! I chose the picture of the nun in the floating chair. I wrote like a 20 page short story all about this team of detectives who took on cases about mysterious supernatural things, and their fifth case was of a flying chair in France. Damn, I can't believe you just reminded me of this! Awesome!
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the wall with the birds is great!
i love the glowing pumpkin with the hovering knife!
that is amazing! never heard of him, but im glad you showed his beautiful illustrations, really makes you want to know more. ever so mysterious...
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Those pics are so freaky but insanely cool at the same time. Especially the pumpkin.
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Oooh I can see why these would capture your imagination. They're great! Totally spooky. I would have chosen the wallpaper bird too :~)
I wrote a short story about a Harris Burdick illustration too when I was in third grade! I never knew the back story about the author though, this is great! It brings back so many memories.
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Tiffany
Very interesting post.
I've been really enjoying reading your blog this past month and just noticed the comment you left on mine. Thanks :)
That is super interesting. Stephen King wrote a short story about "The house on Maple Street"... I had never seen the other pictures!
This is really interesting! I which my teachers would spend more time on things like these. I'm definitely going search the library for this for something interesting to read during my holiday :)
Oh how bizzare, the illistrations are so lovely too.
Oh, I love these pictures so much. So creepy.
Ruhvana
haha I remember looking at Harris Burdick's illustrations when I was smaller! I remember there was one with a man with a chair and a weird lump under the carpet that freaked me out so much!
I remember that from when I was little!
I'm doing a thing right now in school where we have to write a short story about one of Harris Burdick's pictures! =) I'm doing the one called "Archie Smith, Boy Wonder!" These pictures are SO COOL!!!
Oh my goodness! We are doing this in school right now where you have to make up a story about the picture. I am doing the wallpaper birds one! They are sooo interesting and I have been surfing the internet for this mysterious man! Thanks so much for postingh this!:})
Wow...these are soo cool and interesting. I have been trying to learn about this mysterious man and there really is nothing out there about him! In school I have to write a short story about one of the pictures. That absolutely grab hold of my imagination.
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