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Fortean Times #31 (Spring 1980)

• Cover price: 95p $2.50
• 56 pages (60 w/covers)
• Cover art by Andrzej Dudzinski

Tracking China's Wildman

Articles

• 02 Wildman by Yuan Zhenxin and Huang Wanpo
• 06 Gateways to Mystery by David Fideler
• 14 The Touch of Death by Michael Goss

Columns

• 22 Enigma Variations by Nigel Watson
  • Wormology
  • Heavenly Death
  • War Reports
  • Bodily Configurations
  • Up the Poll
  • Credits: Ion Will, Jake Williams, Lucius Farish's UFO Newsclipping Service Nos 114 & 115.
• 24 On the Trail by Loren Coleman
  • Maned Mystery Cats
  • Credit: Mark A Hall
• 27 Tales From the Yellow Emporium by Steve Moore
  • First Emperor's Army
  • The Hairy Boy

Comix

• 12 Telly Kinex - JH Szostek
• 21 Facts You Might Forget - Pokkettz
• 28 Phenomenomix - Hunt Emerson

Notes

• 30-31 Strange Encounters - UFO Muggers by PRAdeGS
  • In New York State
  • In Scotland
  • Frenchmen Through the Looking Glass
  • Credits: Anon (Edinburgh), David Britt, Paul Burd, Peter Christie, Alan Gardiner, M Howe, Mike Rickard, R Rickard pere, Sam, Paul Screeton, Dave Sutton, D Watson, Roland Watson, Dwight Whalen, Jake Williams, Ion Will
• 32-33 Heavens Above - New in Space by PRAdeGS
  • Gloomy Portent
  • Astro-Superlatives
  • Booze and Bullion
  • Cosmic Lawn Sprinkler
  • Star Wars?
  • Universe "Is Looking Younger"
  • Object Near Moon
  • Credits: Chris Gray, Chris Holtzhausen, Jerry Mabie, Valerie Martin, Roland Watson, Dwight Whalen, Ion Will
• 33-35 Antiquities - Luck Dips by VT
  • Long Long Ago
  • Atlantis Again
  • Miscellany
  • Credits: Mark Ball, Janet & Colin Bord, R Maragna, Valerie Martin, Sam, Has Thomas, Roland Watson, R White, Ion Will
• 35-37 Ghosts - Haunted Houses by SM
  • Unwelcome Tenants
  • Invasion of Privacy
  • Credits: Keith Beacroft, Paul Burd, Loren Coleman, B Hain, GP Lundegaard, Sam, Martin Straw, D Watson, Nigel Watson, Jake Williams
• 37-38 Synchronicities - Name Games by PRAdeGS
  • Credits: Judith Gee, Mark A Hall, CM, John Michell, Valerie Martin, Peter Roberts, Margo Sagov, Valerie Thomas, Nigel Watson, Ion Will, Heathcote Williams
• 39-42 Lights - Ball Lightnings by RJMR
  • Ball Lightning
  • BL Accidents
  • From USSR to Oz
  • Fireball Festival '79
  • Credits: Tom Adams, Paul Burd, RE Cotton, Tuuri Heporauta, Nigel Pennick, Paul Screeton, Anthony Smith, Thoth, M Tuppen, Roland Watson, Ion Will, Frank Glover
• 42 Trends - Recent Themes by RJMR
  • Little People - Bill Cox, Bob Forrest, B Hain, Chris Hall, Sam, Diana Senior, Dwight Whalen
  • Carbon-Copy Capers - P Rogerson, Nigel Watson, Ion Will

Usual Stuff

• 01,13 Editorial - Report to the Readers
• 13 Next Issue
• 51-52 Classified Exchange - Journals
• 55 Help!
• 55 Small Ads
• 55 Truss Fund (donations) - David Appleton, Larry Arnold, MIG, Mike S Grayson, Dennis Magnus, Valerie Martin, SN Morgan, Leslie Shepard, Mike & Linda Ward, Nigel Watson, Peter Willmott, CA Worth
• 56 Sub information
• 56 Report on upcoming Fairy Exhibition at Brighton Museum

Reviews

• 44-49 Hardbacks
  • Poltergeists by Alan Gauld & AD Cornell - Michael Goss
  • Mysteries of the World edited by Christopher Pick - Paul Sieveking
  • Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans - ISBN 978-0915480012 - Michael Anthony Hoffman
  • An Account of Meeting With Denizens of Another World, 1871 by William Robert Loosley, edited and commentary by David Langford - ISBN 978-0715377253 - Colin Bord
  • UFOs: A British Viewpoint by Jenny Randles & Peter Warrington - ISBN 978-0709174660 - RJMR
  • Gods of Aquarius by Brad Steiger - Colin Bord, RJMR
  • The Airmen Who Would Not Die by John G Fuller - RJMR
  • Researches on the I Ching by Iulian K Shchutskii - Steve Moore
  • I Ching Numerology by Da Liu - Steve Moore
  • Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles H Hapgood - ISBN 978-0801950896 - Valerie Thomas
  • Famous Americans You Never Knew Existed by Bruce Felton & Mark Fowler - Paul Sieveking
• 50-51 Paperbacks
  • The Incorruptibles by Joan Carroll Cruz - ISBN 978-0895550668 - RJMR
  • Worthwhile Paperback Editions
  • Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof
  • The Human Encounter with Death by Stanislav Grof & Joan Halifax
  • Answer to Job by Carl G Jung
  • The Naturalised Animals of the British Isles by Christopher Lever
  • Natural and Supernatural by Brian Inglis
  • Ghosts Over Britain by Peter Moss
  • Miracles by Geoffrey Ashe
  • The Turin Shroud by Ian Wilson
  • The Wild Boy of Aveyron by Harlan Lane
  • A Guide to Ancient Sites in Britain by Janet & Colin Bord
  • Atlas of World Mysteries by Francis Hitching
  • The Secrets of Easter Island by Jean-Michel Schwartz

Letters

• 53 Leys and UFOs - Paul Devereux
• 53-54 Guiding Light - Guy Lyon Playfair
• 54 The Oera Linda Book - Dr Mia Gerhardt
• 54 The Great Fishfall of 1859 - Bernard Delair with response by Robert Schadewald
• 55 About FT30 - Doc Shiels

Masthead

• Editor - Robert JM Rickard
• Editorial Assistants - Steve Moore, Paul Sieveking and Valerie Thomas
• Contributing Editors - David Fideler and Phil Ledger
• Art Director - Richard Adams
• Comix Editor and section heading artwork - Hunt Emerson

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