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Does anyone else of a certain age have memories of these from the 70s? I had three slim A4 paperbacks, covering ghosts, UFOs and monsters. At the age of six I read them until they were falling apart, and they really set me off on the whole fortean / unexplained thing (got a lot to answer for then!) They had quite an impression; I lived in fear of a visit from the Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins for a while, and some of the pictures in the ghost book had me sleeping with the light on too.
A few years later I'd moved on to those big-format Daniel Farson and Peter Haining books, and I think the Usborne ones ended up on the bookstall at the school summer fair, along with my Beano annuals! Wish I still had them though. As they were aimed at fairly young kids, they'd probably seem totally noddy and full of inaccuracies now, but they got me started.
Were these three the only ones in the series? I can also recall getting another Usborne book about ghosts, vampires, werewolves etc out of the library, but that was a smaller format, and had gorier pictures in it as I remember. If you remember them, or any other fortean book that you read as a nipper, stick them up here, and we'll see if we can compile a list for weird kids everywhere!
A few years later I'd moved on to those big-format Daniel Farson and Peter Haining books, and I think the Usborne ones ended up on the bookstall at the school summer fair, along with my Beano annuals! Wish I still had them though. As they were aimed at fairly young kids, they'd probably seem totally noddy and full of inaccuracies now, but they got me started.
Were these three the only ones in the series? I can also recall getting another Usborne book about ghosts, vampires, werewolves etc out of the library, but that was a smaller format, and had gorier pictures in it as I remember. If you remember them, or any other fortean book that you read as a nipper, stick them up here, and we'll see if we can compile a list for weird kids everywhere!