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Fortean Times #419 (June 2022)

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Contents

  • 16 A Suffolk ghost vigil
  • 36 Painter of light and dark: the double life of Thomas Kinkade
  • 50 Leonora Carrington's Tarot
  • 68 Surrealist gardening

Features

28 The Strange Case of Walter Sickert and Jack the Ripper (cover story)
Billy Rough explores the longstanding association of artist Walter Sickert's name with the Ripper murders of 1888, tracing the stages by which one of the most important British painters of his generation became linked to a ghoulish story deeply embedded in our cultural psyche.

36 The Double Life of Thomas Kinkade
The work of Thomas Kinkade, whose mass-marketed paintings are hugely popular but dismissed by critics as kitsch, has long obsessed Jeffrey Vallance. But when he started having strange prophetic dreams about the late artist, he found himself uncovering the dark side of the 'Painter of Light'...

42 Twentieth Century Tales, Part Three
Paul Sieveking presents some of the strangest newspaper stories from the first half of the 20th century, including a vengeful statue, a calendar war and a man who ticked like a clock...

Series

68 Fortean Traveller - Las Pozas, Zilitla, Mexico Mike Jay

Forum

48 Guided to Grainger's grave Barry Humphries

50 Surrealism's international magic Robert Weinberg

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Unwise insertions, Easter miracles, weird waves, an African mermaid and more...

  • 12 Archæology
  • 13 Classical Corner
  • 14 Science
  • 16 Ghostwatch
  • 22 Alien Zoo
  • 26 The UFO Files

Regulars

  • 02 Editorial
  • 53 Reviews
  • 61 Letters
  • 67 Reader Info
  • 71 Phenomenomix
  • 72 Strange Deaths

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