FT337

Fortean Times #337 (February 2016)

• Release date: 04 Feb 2016
• Cover: Courtesy of Heritage Auctions

Strange Days

Jihadis on the red mercury trail, more weird sexual fetishes, deadly spider surprises, electromagnetic hypersensitivity, Iron Age monster mash, ghosts of Bishop's Stortford, bosom serpents, classical sweariness - and much more.

• 05 The Conspirasphere
• 14 Science
• 16 Archaeology
• 17 Classical Corner
• 18 Ghostwatch
• 23 Alien Zoo
• 25 Mythconceptions
• 26 Necrolog
• 27 Fairies & Forteana
• 28 The UFO Files

Contents

• 32 Wuthering Frights - The Gothic Romance - from Ann Radcliffe to Guillermo del Toro
• 48 Mummy Dearest - Indonesia's island of the living dead
• 56 Horning In - Unicorn lore and literature
• 06 Animal Art - Talented tapirs and stunning starlings
• 52 Goatsuckers and Demon Sheep - The strange world of American politics

Features

32 The Return of Gothic Romance (cover story)
Guillermo del Toro described his recent film Crimson Peak as a "classic Gothic Romance", a genre that has been consigned to oblivion for nearly four decades. But what is Gothic Romance, what makes it different from horror and why did it fall into obscurity? MARIA J PEREZ CUERVO dons her best nightie and goes in search of answers...

40 The Welsh Neanderthals
AMANDA REES sets off into the great Celtic desert in search of ancient racial survivals, mysterious megaliths, fairy folklore and one of the oddest byways of evolutionary science.

48 Island of the Living Dead
PAUL KOUDOUNARIS travels to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to meet the mummies of Tana Toraja and join a ritual celebrating the enduring bonds that link the living and the dead.

Reports

24 A Discovery of Witches - ASSAP's 'Seriously Bewitched' conference

30 Blasts from the Past - No 61. The pre-war monster panics of 1938

52 Strange Statesmen - No 8. American Psychos 1: End Times Tea Party

56 Building a Fortean Library - No 8. One horn on which to perch them

76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 44. Mynheer Van Klaes, the King of Smokers

Regulars

78 Reader Info

• Special Correspondents
  • Australia - Graham Cordon (SA), Tony Healy (ACT), John Palazzi (NSW), Len Watson (Qld)
  • Canada - Brian Chapman (BC), Graham Conway (BC)
  • Cyberspace - Richard Alexander, John F Callahan, Hugh Henry, Steve Scanlon, Janet Wilson
  • England - Gail-Nina Anderson, Louise Bath, James Beckett, Claire Blamey, Peter Christie, Mat Coward, Kate Eccles, Paul Farthing, George Featherston, Paul Gallagher, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Anne Hardwick, Richard Lowke, Alexis Lykiard, Diana Lyons, Dave Malin, Nick Maloret, Valerie Martin, Tom Ruffles, Meryl Santis, Paul Screeton, Gary Stocker, Roman Suchyj, Frank Thomas, Paul Thomas, Nick Warren, Owen Whiteoak, Bobby Zodiac
  • France - Michel Meurger
  • Germany - Ulrich Magin
  • Holland - Robin Pascoe
  • Ireland - Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, Andrew Munro
  • Israel - Zvi Ron
  • New Zealand - Peter Hassall
  • Romania - Iosif Boczor
  • Scotland - Roger Musson
  • Sweden - Sven Rosen
  • Thailand - Chris Williams
  • USA - Loren Coleman (ME), Jim Conlan (CT), Myron Hoyt (ME), Greg May (FL), Dolores Phelps (TX), Jim Riecken (NY), Joseph Trainor (MA), Jeffrey Vallance (CA), Gary Yates (UT)
  • Wales - Janet Bord, Colin Bord
• Fort Sorters (who classify clippings placed in the Archives for Fortean Research)
  • Phil Baker, Rachel Carthy, Chris Josiffe, Mark Pilkington, Bob Rickard, Paul Sieveking, Ian Simmons

Masthead

• Editor - David Sutton
• Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
• Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
• Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
• Book Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
• Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson

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