They're really cool illustrations! In case you missed my edit, there's another version called The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, where famous authors have written stories to accompany the illustrations: https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Harris-Burdick-Fourteen-Introduction/dp/0547548109
Have you seen The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales , it's got 14 famous authors writing short stories about the original Chronicles.
There's also the Chronicals of HB, where 14 well know authors tackle one each of the pages
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0547548109/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_X62VVD0ZPFTCDC2N5NZA
The picture of the glowing pumpkin is from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. This book contains a lot of enigmatic pictures and captions - but no stories. It is sometimes used by English teachers for story starters. The caption that accompanies the pumpkin picture is "She lowered the knife and it grew even brighter."
There is a second book, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, which contains stories by an assortment of famous authors to accompany those pictures.
*Edit: the story to accompany the pumpkin picture is Just Desert by M.T. Anderson