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ASDA - Keel books (!)

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Asda (our local one at least) is selling some interesting Fortean books at the moment for £2 a go. They have terrible covers though and are all published under the "MOST BIZARRE..." series. These three in particular caught my attention:

- "Most Bizarre... Our Haunted Planet" by John A Keel. Reprint of Our Haunted Planet, with a Publisher's Note at the start apologising for its political incorrectness.

- "Most Bizarre... Strange But True", Corrine Kenner & Craig Miller eds. - a compendium of reports of the weird from readers of Fate magazine (all named).

- "Most Bizarre... Ghosts of the Air" by Martin Caidin. Introduction by John Keel; terrifyingly-written but packed with strange reports from pilots.

There was also one on coincidences but a brief gander revealed them to be of the extremely anecdotal, unsourced and unverified variety.
 
Oh bloody'ell. The Fate one may be a reprint of a book that scared the bejesus out of me as a kid one holiday.

From memory -

'She cursed him - you will die slowly, and alone, and in great pain!
And he got his foot tuck in a bear trap and starved to death.'

'His parents saw him riding a big white horse around, outside the house where he lay seriously ill.
When his mother checked on him, he was dead.'

&c.

:shock:
 
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Told you they look awful...
 
You know what they say - never judge a thingy by it's wotsit.

Or is that something about the size of a man's feet??? ;)
 
I'll pop along to Asda this afto and have a gander's.
Rave, shall I get you any?

I want to see if any of them are the same as the one that frightened me so much when I was about 9.

(Obviously I was too young to be reading scary stuff like that but my reading age was dangerously high.)
 
Well one of the Strange But True stories is about a woman in the 1930s getting lost in a parallel dimension where nobody can see her. She meets a boy who is also lost and they spend the day trying to escape, then she gets magically transported back into reality.

OK, it was a lot spookier and more believable when they were telling it!
 
:(

I've just braved the early xmas shopping traffic to look for the books at Asda but they're not on sale here, boo.

(I did get a couple of nice half-price gourmet sarnies for Techy's tea though. :) )

Ttaarraass M8, it's all down to you now. More stories, please. ;)
 
Ooo thanks for the offer, Esc. Shame you couldn't get any. There's an Asda in Bristol, but that's a bit of a trek as well. Bit less exhausting than swimming to Swansea, mind. ;)

I ask my Mom to ask my brother to have a look next time he's in Asda, although it doesn't sound like it's a nationwide thing.
 
I'll keep checking when I'm in there in case they turn up. Like, appear spontaneously. :shock:
 
"Most Bizarre... Ghosts of the Air" by Martin Caidin. Introduction by John Keel; terrifyingly-written but packed with strange reports from pilots. "

This is my bedtime reading at the moment. Some startling stories in this. The phantom voices which instruct pilots how to avoid disaster must be a form of crisis auditory phenomena. They seem to be a firm part of fliers' sub-culture - reassuring to know that! Some interesting readers' reviews on Amazon, including people who knew Caidin, an author who hit pay-dirt with some block-buster film-scripts. 8)
 
Another heads up for the ultra-budget "Most Bizarre..." series:

I found a small quantity of another one, "Most Bizarre... From Flying Toads to Snakes With Wings" by Dr Karl P. N. Shuker in my local branch of The Works discount bookshop. 99p

They also have various Colin Wilson budget books, incl "World Famous UFOs" which seems to have a few ideas in it I haven't come across elsewhere (the Loch Ness Monster is a ghost. ?!)
 
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