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Fortean Times #396 (September 2020)

• Release date: 13 Aug 2020
• Cover price: £4.60
• Cover Image: Etienne Gilfillan
• All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis

Contents

• 8 Valley of the Dawn: Brazil's New Age religion
• 24 Berserker wombat
• 40 Lovecraft in New York
• 74 Cagliostro's last days

Features

30 The Pensacola Plesiosaur (cover story)
Not many sea monster encounters end in death, but Florida has the dubious distinction of two sea serpent sightings that led to tragedy. David Goudsward tells the story of one of them.

36 The Horror at Clinton Street: HP Lovecraft in Brooklyn
Gary Lachman explores how Lovecraft's rascism fed into the author's New York nightmare, the break-up of his marraige and the uncomfortable literary products that were the result.

42 Noid vs Noid
Jeffrey Vallance presents a paranoid conspiracy theory, involving Arctic shamans, video games, mental illness, a shootout, Michael Jackson, Robert Anton Wilson and pizza.

Reports

46 Strange Statesmen - The Pink Plague SD Tucker

50 Building a Fortean Library - Cat Country The Hierophant's Apprentice

74 Fortean Traveller - Magical Heights: San Marino and San Leo Rob Gandy

Forum

53 No summer for the New World Order by Tea Krulos

54 The Bells! The Bells! by Matt Salusbury

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Mothman statues, vampire hunting kits, Big Grey Man, WWII alligator and more...

• 16 Archaeology
• 18 Science
• 20 The Conspirasphere
• 23 Mythconceptions
• 25 Alien Zoo
• 28 The UFO Files

Regulars

• 02 Editorial
• 57 Reviews
• 67 Letters
• 78 Reader Info
• 79 Phenomenomix
• 80 Strange Deaths