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Fortean Times #354 (Jun 2017)

• Release date: 25 May 2017
• Cover price: £4.50
• Cover Image: Etienne Gilfillan
  • TV Set: Davies and Star/Getty Images
  • Les Dawson: R. Poplowski/Fox Photos/Getty Images
• All header icons throughout the magazine illustrated by Capucine Deslouis
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Contents

• 30 The haunted generation: TV nightmares of a 1970s childhood
• 40 Strange tales from Essex
• 44 Heads-up: amazing Egyptian discoveries
• 50 A darker side of Les Dawson

Features

30 The Haunted Generation (cover story)
Bob Fischer discovers how disquieting British TV and public information films of the 1970s inspired a generation and ponders the future of popular hauntology.

38 Visit Hookland
Fiona Maher explains how a spooky 'forgotten' British county was brought back to life through Twitter.

40 Strange Finds in Parish Registers
Helen Barrell shares some unusual finds - from six-toed children to freak weather - from the county of Essex.

Reports

28 Blasts from the Past - The Vanishing of Gertrude Strassburger Theo Paijmans

54 Building a Fortean Library - Words, spells and silences The Hierophant's Apprentice

74 Fortean Traveller - Greece's Oracle of the Dead Ulrich Magin

Forum

49 Joshua Slocum's fortean voyage by Peter Brookesmith

50 A darker shade of Dawson by George White

52 Hue and Cree on Hankley Common by Cathi Unsworth

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Rennes-le-Château attack, Prince Philip worshippers and mediæval zombies...

• 05 The Conspirasphere
• 12 Science
• 14 Archæology
• 15 Classical Corner
• 16 Ghostwatch
• 21 Mythconceptions
• 23 Alien Zoo
• 26 The UFO Files

Regulars

• 02 Editorial
• 55 Reviews
• 69 Letters
• 78 Reader Info
• 79 Phenomenomix
• 80 Strange Deaths

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