FT322
Fortean Times #322 (Christmas 2014)
- Release date: 11 December 2014
- Cover price: £4.25
- Cover: Etienne Gilfillan thanks to Joe, Duke, Pippa and Nathaniel
- Zinio version
Contents
- 40 Gnomes: The Secret Life of Rien Poortvliet - The story behind a worldwide publishing sensation
- 26 Invasion of the Black-Eyed Kids - Supernatural scares in the internet age
- 06 Asylum - Inside the Pauper Lunatic Asylums
- 14 Phantoms in the Brain - How a Swiss laboratory is creating ghosts
- 46 Attack of the B-Movie Brains - Very strange cases of alien abduction
Features
26 Invasion of the Black-Eyed Kids (Cover Story)
In the autumn of 2014, British newspapers became fixated on a new supernatural threat: Black-Eyed Children. Stuart Ferrol asks what's behind this sudden eruption of screaming ghost kids and delves into their origins.
29 Let the Right One In
Jenny Coleman searches for the cultural roots of the Black-Eyed Kids.
34 Cross Bones
Cross Bones graveyard is a unique site where the forgotten spirits of London prostitutes have been conjured back into memory. Faye Lipson unearths the cemetery's strange history and attends an unusual ritual.
40 Gnomes: The Secret World of Rien Poortvliet
Ever since Christmas 1976, people have been unwrapping a book called Gnomes and discovering its magical yet grounded world. Angeline B Adams and Remco Van Straten uncover the origins of an unlikely Dutch bestseller.
44 Santa Claus Smith
Mike Dash shares the heart-warmingly odd tale of an eccentric hobo in America's Great Depression.
Reports
24 Blasts from the Past - No 54. An Amazon of outer space by Theo Paijmans
46 Dictionary of the Damned - No 58. Abduction by aliens, part three by The Hierophant's Apprentice
72 Fortean Traveller - No. 97. Lincoln Cathedral by Ted Harrison
76 Stories from the Illustrated Police News - No 35. The haunted murder house near Chard by Jan Bondeson
Forum
51 That tingly feeling... by Ian 'Cat' Vincent
52 'Skeptics' and believing unbelievers by David V Barrett
Strange Days
Hunt for the Disneyland Tiger, Unidentified Submarine Objects, the thing under the floorboards, Nessie news, Italy's cursed senator, another Lost Gospel, clown scares continue, funding for Danish trolls - and much more.
- 05 The Conspirasphere by Noel Rooney
- 14 Ghostwatch by Alan Murdie
- What Black Eyes You Have!
- Neuroscientific Phantoms
- 16 Fortean Follow-ups
- 17 Alien Zoo by Karl Shuker
- Fangs are what they Used to be
- Photos of Yeti Prints Sold
- New Frog in New York
- 19 Mythconceptions - 183: Are We Keeping You Up? by Mat Coward
- 20 Necrolog
- Andrew Kerr
- Kenny Kingston
- Joan Quigley
- 21 Fairies and Folklore: Piskey Battles by Simon Young
- 22 The UFO Files
- UFO Casebook: The House on Haunted Moor by Jenny Randles
- 80 Strange Deaths
Regulars
Editorial
- 02 A very Yeti Christmas
- Fairy Census Update
- A New Crypto-Journal
- Alex's Seasonal Art Sale (by Alex Tomlinson)
Reviews
- 55 BOOKS
- Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World by Gary Lachman - ISBN 9780399161902 - Phil Baker
- Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin by Tobias Churton - ISBN 9781620552568 - Phil Baker
- Tiger Woman: My Story by Betty May - ISBN 9780715648551 - Phil Baker
- A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction by Terry Pratchett - ISBN 9780857521224 - Richard Thomas
- Magic in Christianity: From Jesus to Gnostics by Robert Conner - ISBN 9781906958619 - David V Barrett
- Hikey Sprites: The Twilight of a Norfolk Tradition by Ray Loveday - ISBN 9780900616990 - Paul Sieveking
- How Sexual Desire Works: The Enigmatic Urge by Frederick Toates - ISBN 1107688043 - Mark Greener
- The Language Myth: Why Language is not an Instinct by Vyvyan Evans - ISBN 9781107619753 - Noel Rooney
- Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson - ISBN 9780300192056 - Lucy R Fisher
- Also Received
- DNA of the Gods by Chris H Hardy - ISBN 9781591431855
- The Sacred History by Jonathan Black - ISBN 9781780874876
- A Brief History of Death by WM Spellman - ISBN 9781780232652
- Fortean Fiction by David Sutton
- The Motherless Oven by Rob Davis - ISBN 9781906838812
- Ordinary by Rob Williams and D'Israeli - ISBN 9781782760092
- FILM & DVD
- Insterstellar - Director Christopher Nolan, US 2014 - Etienne Gilfillan
- Out of the Unknown - created by Irene Shubik, UK 1965-71 - David V Barrett
- Out of This World: Little Lost robot - created by Irene Shubik, UK 1962 - David V Barrett
- The Reverend's Review by Reverend Peter Laws
- Blacula: The Complete Collection - Director William Crain, Bob Kelljan, US 1972/1973
- Shorts
- Day of the Mummy - Image Entertainment - Daniel King
- Debug - Signature Entertainment - DK
- Natural Born Killers - Warner Home Video - DS
Letters
- 67 Heikki Tikkala, Dennis Lien, Martin Jenkins, James Wright, David Howse, Ryan Shirlow, Joseph Barnes, Bob Rickard, John Jerome, Greg May, Paul & Grace Simmons, Patricia Arbuckle, Ewan McVicar, Simon Curzon, Nils Erik Grande
- Simulacra Corner: Alan Olsen
- Cartoon by The Surreal McCoy
It Happened to Me
Phenomenomix
- 79 Carl Jung Part 2 by Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson
Reader Info
- 78 Special Correspondents
- Australia - Graham Cordon (SA), Tony Healy (ACT), John Palazzi (NSW), Len Watson (Qld)
- Canada - Brian Chapman (BC), Graham Conway (BC)
- Cyberspace - Richard Alexander, John F Callahan, Hugh Henry, Steve Scanlon
- England - Gail-Nina Anderson, Louise Bath, James Beckett, Claire Blamey, Peter Christie, Mat Coward, Kate Eccles, Paul Farthing, George Featherston, Paul Gallagher, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Anne Hardwick, Richard Lowke, Alexis Lykiard, Diana Lyons, Dave Malin, Nick Maloret, Valerie Martin, Tom Ruffles, Meryl Santis, Paul Screeton, Gary Stocker, Roman Suchyj, Frank Thomas, Paul Thomas, Nick Warren, Owen Whiteoak, Bobby Zodiac
- France - Michel Meurger
- Germany - Ulrich Magin
- Holland - Robin Pascoe
- Ireland - Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, Andrew Munro
- Israel - Zvi Ron
- New Zealand - Peter Hassall
- Romania - Iosif Boczor
- Scotland - Roger Musson
- Sweden - Sven Rosen
- Thailand - Chris Williams
- USA - Loren Coleman (ME), Jim Conlan (CT), Myron Hoyt (ME), Greg May (FL), Dolores Phelps (TX), Jim Riecken (NY), Joseph Trainor (MA), Jeffrey Vallance (CA), Gary Yates (UT)
- Wales - Janet Bord, Colin Bord
- Fort Sorters (who classify clippings placed in the Archives for Fortean Research)
- Clipping Credits
- Michael Ahmed, Richard Alexander, Gail-Nina Anderson, Gerard Apps, David V Barrett, James Beckett, John F Callahan, Peter Christie, Andy Conlon, Pat Corcoran, Emily Davies, Brian Duffy, Kate Eccles, JD Evans, John H Evans, George Featherston, Alan Gardiner, Keith George, Hugh Henry, Kevin Hubbard, Colin Ings, Ernest Jackson, Rosalind Johnson, Bill Kelly, Louise Kelly, Richard Lowke, Diana Lyons, Dave Malin, Bert Gray-Malkin, Betty Gray-Malkin, Nick Maloret, Valerie Martin, Tom Mason, Greg May, John Palazzi, Martin Piechota, Jim Price, Pat Read, Tom Ruffles, Matt Salusbury, Meryl Santis, Paul Screeton, Amelia Shay, Jonathan Sibley, Tony Smith, Nidge Solly, Gary Stocker, Frank Thomas, Carole Tyrrell, Jebadiah Valentine, Leslie Vinson, Nicholas Warren, Len Watson, Owen Whiteoak, Paul Whyte, Janet Wilson, Simon Young, Bobby Zodiac, Zebbie Zubbeh
Masthead
- Editor - David Sutton
- Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Book Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson