dreeness said:..."Where did you hear this word?"
-- "N-nuclear?!?"
"NO! Not that word! THIS word! THIS WORD!!"
-- "The Book of Revelations!"...
paranoid420 said:The world of the unknown books, i had them or my school library had them. I totally forgot about them until now.
http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/201 ... /hpim0777/
paranoid420 said:The world of the unknown books, i had them or my school library had them. I totally forgot about them until now.
http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/201 ... /hpim0777/
Isadora duncan was the ultimate fail.Good old fashioned Tales from the Crypt and similar American import comics in early 70's. Some stories were factual (eg death of Isadora Duncan with illustration) and some were just beautiful fiction (eg when Death decided to die) that still stays in the mind.
...But the first thing that I remember being a non-fiction look at the strange and supernatural was Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, and the accompanying book, which was almost certainly the first non-fiction title I read from cover to cover...
Me too. I remember getting a book about aviation mysteries and that was what really triggered it - especially the chapter on UFOs.I read a lot of SF from an early age, so I was 'primed' for an interest in the Fortean...
At some point in the 70s, someone gave me a UFO book for Christmas. It was a book by Brad Steiger, but I no longer have it and can't remember the title (but I remember the cover picture). I can't find it listed anywhere, which is Fortean in itself.
Then I discovered Fortean Times back in the late 80s. Or was it the early 90s?
Edit: Oh yes, I forgot - I used to get a comic called Countdown (late 60s/early 70s). It had these wonderful little features about UFO sightings.
The Reader's Digest: Strange Stories - Amazing Facts
It had everything a young mind could want. Ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, Sea Serpents, Jack the Ripper, Spring Heeled Jack, curses, magic, witchcraft and those damned fucking scary Belmez faces that terrified me as a child.
I still have a copy in my library.
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those damned fucking scary Belmez faces
The Reader's Digest: Strange Stories - Amazing Facts
It had everything a young mind could want. Ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, Sea Serpents, Jack the Ripper, Spring Heeled Jack, curses, magic, witchcraft and those damned fucking scary Belmez faces that terrified me as a child.
I still have a copy in my library.
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This bad boy started me off when I was around eight. Certain bits scared me silly.
Why don't authors seem to have such silly names now? IIRC his wife was called Araminta..
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I think what was most interesting was the inclusion of folk tales, local festivals and other traditions as well as the ghosties and ghoulies!
What's the first publication @Yithian ?