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Fortean Times #411 (November 2021)

• Release date: 7 Oct 2021
• Cover price: £4.80
• Cover Illustration by Pascal Blanché originally created for Les Visions De Dune (Vivien Lejeune). Reproduced with kind permission from Third Editions
• All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis
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Contents

• 4 Wally the wandering walrus
• 16 Sir Walter Scott versus witchcraft
• 34 The mystical origins of Frank Herbert's Dune
• 42 Arthur C Clarke's mysteries

Features

34 The Shortening of the Way (cover story)
With a new Dune movie in cinemas and a TV series in the offing, Bob Rickard dons his still-suit and probes the origin of Frank Herbert's protagonists - the Kwisatz Haderech - and their mysterious ability to transcend space and time.

42 Revisiting Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World, Part 2
Ryan Shirlow hits the rewind button and continues his episode-by-episode reappraisal of a fortean television classic.

48 Scary Stories from Scunthorpe
Rob Gandy heads to the steel town of Scunthorpe, where he finds that this centre of modern industry is a surprising hotspot for anomalous activity, well supplied with spectral presences, hospital apparitions and phantom jaywalkers...

Series

54 Building a Fortean Library - Living On The Hierophant's Apprentice

76 Peculiar Postcards - If London were Venice Jan Bondeson

Forum

57 The Return of the King Kate Cherrell

58 "Time is no stream to get fixed in" Eric Hoffman

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: wandering walrus, possessed exorcist, creepy toys, monkey riots and much more...

• 12 Archæology
• 14 Science
• 22 Conspirasphere
• 24 Alien Zoo
• 28 Strange Continent
• 30 The UFO Files

Regulars

• 02 Editorial
• 61 Reviews
• 71 Letters
• 78 Reader Info
• 79 Phenomenomix
• 80 Strange Deaths

Masthead

• Editor - David Sutton
• Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
• Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
• News Editor - Ian Simmons
• Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
• Book Reviews Editor - David V Barrett
• Editorial Assistant - Abigail Mason
• Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson
• Production Assistant - Tracey Killick

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