FT411
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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