FT357
Fortean Times #357 (Sep 2017)
- Release date: 17 Aug 2017
- Cover price: £4.50
- Cover Image: Hunt Emerson/Keystone/Getty Images
- Whitby Abbey: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images
- All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis
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Contents
- 22 Waiting for the return of Indias' frozen guru
- 32 Fourier's sexy Solar System
- 38 Arthur Machen's Whitby: Town of a Magic Dream
- 55 Prophet of the Kraken
Features
28 Crowley: The Comic Strip (cover story)
Hunt Emerson & Kevin Jackson present the life story of the 'Great Beast' as you've never seen it before...
32 Socialism, Sex and the Solar System
SD Tucker explores the bizarre coital cosmology of Charles Fourier, the French thinker who claimed that Venus had a penis and that bad interplanetary sex was responsible for capitalism.
38 Whitby: Town of a Magic Dream
Whitby is the location for a new film based on the haunting stories of Arthur Machen. Carolyn Waudby explores the weird credentials of the town where Dracula first arrived in England...
44 Robert Boyle & The Invisible College
Bob Rickard explores the connected world of Britain's 17th century proto-forteans in the era before the Royal Society turned its back on the study of strange phenomena.
Reports
52 Building a Fortean Library - The Paranoid Style in American Politics The Hierophant's Apprentice
Forum
55 Prophet of the Kraken by Richard Freeman
56 Fiction's first cryptozoologist by Peter Costello
Strange Days
A digest of the worldwide weird, including: food falls, suicidal robot, African poltergeist, UFOs over the playground and more...
- 05 The Conspirasphere
- 14 Archæology
- 15 Classical Corner
- 16 Britain's X-Files
- 19 Alien Zoo
- 21 Mythconceptions
Regulars
- 02 Editorial
- 59 Reviews
- 73 Letters
- 77 It Happened to Me
- 79 Reader Info
- 80 Strange Deaths