FT418
Fortean Times #418 (May 2022)
- Release date: 21 Apr 2022
- Cover price: £4.80
- Cover Illustration: Etienne Gilfillan; with thanks to Matthew Kneale; Golden Gate of Kyiv Maksym Kozlenko
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Contents
- 13 Peruvian skull mystery
- 18 Cursed stones and fox spirits
- 28 Quatermass and beyond: the Nigel Kneale century.
- 36 The Lost Kingdom: Putin and Holy Russia
Features
28 The Nigel Kneale Century (cover story)
John Dear examines the life and legacy of the man whose scripts, including The Quatermass Experiment and The Stone Tape, mapped a dark world of ancient terrors and future shocks and changed the face of television forever.
36 The Lost Kingdom: Putin & Holy Russia
Gary Lachman examines the weird geopolitical ideas underlying Putin's invasion of Ukraine, including the belief that Mother Russia's destiny is to usher in a new religious epoch... or perhaps the Apocalypse.
42 Twentieth Century Tales, Part Two
Paul Sieveking presents some of the strangest newspaper stories from the first half of the 20th century, including a Swedish ghost train, eagle attacks, wild children and the bizarre 1930s craze of tree-sitting...
Series
48 Strange Statesmen - History isn't what it used to be SD Tucker
69 Peculiar Postcards - The King's Cross bear hunt Jan Bondeson
Forum
51 The Cult of the Talking Cross Matt Salusbury
52 The fourth-dimensional Jesus Tim Cook
Strange Days
A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Angels over Ukraine, clever crows, cursed stones and a new Turin Shroud theory...
- 12 Archæology
- 14 Classical Corner
- 16 Science
- 18 Ghostwatch
- 22 Strange Continent
- 26 The UFO Files
Regulars
- 02 Editorial
- 55 Reviews
- 63 Letters
- 70 Reader Info
- 71 Phenomenomix
- 72 Strange Deaths
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- News Editor - Ian Simmons
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
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- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson
- Production Manager - Lee Boyman
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