The House on Maple Street

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is a 1984 picture book written by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It consists of a series of images, ostensibly created by Harris Burdick, a man who has mysteriously disappeared. Each image is accompanied by a title and a single line of text, which encourage readers to create their own stories. Many famous writers have tried to put their own twists on the pictures. The book is available in a Portfolio Edition which includes another image/caption pair from the story "Missing in Venice". In 2011 a book titled The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales * was published, composed of stories inspired by the book’s illustrations by noted writers, including Tabitha King and Louis Sachar.