Christine (Noble) Govan

Anticipating a dull summer away from home while recuperating from typhoid fever, a ten-year-old boy is surprised by the interesting new friends he encounters and their experiences together.

When the seven members of the Curious Clubhouse find four rolls of old wallpaper, they become involved with a gang of thieves.

The shyness of a new girl in a small town is mistaken for snobbery until she gathers her courage to rescue a little dog and proves her interest and loyalty to two new friends.

The Plummer children skylark through a summer vacation with the help of some new friends.

Hour after westerly / Robert M. Coates -- Housing problem / Henry Kuttner -- Portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- None before me / Sidney Carroll -- Putzi / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Demon lover / Shirley Jackson -- Miss Winters and the wind / Christine Noble Govan -- Mr. Death and the redheaded woman (the rider on the pale horse) / Helen Eustis -- Jeremy in the wind / Nigel Kneale -- Glass eye / John Keir Cross -- Saint Katy the virgin / John Steinbeck -- Night Flight / Josephine W. Johnson -- Cocoon / John B.L. Goodwin -- Hand / Wessel Hyatt Smitter -- [Sound Machine]( / Roald Dahl -- Laocoön Complex / J.C. Furnas -- I am waiting / Christopher Isherwood. Witnesses / William Sansom -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Heartburn / Hortense Calisher -- Supremacy of Uruguay / E.B. White -- Pedestrian / Ray Bradbury -- Note for the milkman / Sidney Carroll -- Eight Mistresses / Jean Hrolda -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Inflexible Logic / Russell Maloney.

Neighborhood children move the possessions their parents always complain about (old birds nests, broken dolls, mounted butterflies) into a deserted house that suddenly takes on a ghostly life of its own.