FT271
Fortean Times #271 (February 2011)
- Release Date: 06 Jan 2011
- Cover price: £4.25
- US Edition is dated March 2011 with a cover price of $11.99 USA (CAN $13.25, AUS $12.95, NZ $16.90)
- Cover: Alex Tomlinson
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Contents
- 44 Strange Stories from a World of Wonder - Remembering a magazine that gave Seventies schoolkids a walk on the weird side
- 38 Naked Quakers - Society of Friend's odd origins
- 36 Surrounded by Buzzing Electricity - Musician-playwright-artist Felix Kubin interviewed
- 04 The Wikileaks Saga - Assange, infowars and the end of conspiracy
- 51 Calling All Space Brothers - Flying saucers and their cults
Features
30 HR Giger's Reel Monster (cover story)
One eyewitness description forever fixed the popular image of the Chupacabra - the blood-sucking monster that stalked Puerto Rico in the 1990s. But, argues Benjamin Radford, it's a description that bears an uncanny similarity to a 1995 movie monster created by none other than cult artist HR Giger... could they be one and the same?
38 Naked Quakers
Justin Meggitt looks back at the strange world of the early Quakers, with their apocalyptic obsessions and penchant for disrobing in public.
44 Strange Stories from a World of Wonder
In the first of a two-part article, Matt Salusbury relives the vanished days of his childhood, when the weekly arrival of a magazine called World of Wonder would lift him out of the realm of humdrum reality and help set him on the royal road to forteana.
Reports
28 Blasts from the Past - No. 28. California Flesh Falls by John Hairr
36 Fortean Bureau of Investigation - No. 110. Paranoid Soundworlds by Mike Pursley
51 Fortean Times Dictionary of the Damned - No. 37. Contactee Religions
Forum
55 The right royal relic? by Ted Harrison
56 Dangerous crossing by John Billingsley
58 Return of the king by Dr Karl Shuker
60 Cholera humbug! by Geoff Dupuy-Holder
Strange Days
WikiLeaks revelations; adrift on the ocean wave; one old lady locked in the lavatory; deadly woodlands; army bugle and sea camera find good homes; cobras terrify village and pet black snake saves family from fire; unlikely coincidences; extreme allergies - and much more.
- 14 Medical Bag: Time to Prescribe Prayer?
- 16 Ghostwatch: Thereby Hangs a Tale... Part Two
- 17 Mythconceptions: Wren's Redundant Columns
- 18 Archaeology
- Uffington White...Dog?
- Stone Age Door
- Thunderstone Mystery
- 19 Classical Corner 133: Get Stuffed
- 21 Alien Zoo
- Return of the Champ?
- Going Batty over a Missing Mystery
- A New Madagascan Mongoose
- 23 Konspiracy Korner: Masons on the Moon and False Flag Operations
- 24 Necrolog
- Zecharia Sitchin
- Geoffrey Crawley
- Betty Meyler
- 25 Strange Deaths
- 26 The UFO Files
- Flyingsaucery
- Recycle Your UFOs Here!
- Spook Rockets Return?
- It's a Mythtery
- All Along the Watchtower
- UFO Casebook: Let's Play UFO Snap!
- Flyingsaucery
Regulars
Editorial
- 02 Leaks and alien look-alikes
Subscriptions
- 54 Free Fortean Times Mouse Mat
Reviews
- 63 BOOKS
- Queen Victoria's Stalker: The Strange Story of the Boy Jones by Jan Bondeson - ISBN 9781848688636
- 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking by Paul Levitz - ISBN 9783836519816
- Mystic Cults in Magna Craecia edited by Giovanni Casadio & Patricia A Johnston - ISBN 9780292723542
- The Truth Agenda: Making Sense of Unexplained Mysteries, Global Cover-Ups and 2012 Prophecies by Andy Thomas - ISBN 9780955060816
- Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock by Vere Chappell - ISBN 9781578634767
- Cambridge Ghosts by Robert Halliday & Alan Murdie - ISBN 9781845494537
- Wired for God? The Biology of Spritual Experience by Charles Foster - ISBN 9780340964422
- Getting it wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism by W Joseph Campbell - ISBN 9780520262096
- David V Barrett's SF and Fantasy round-up
- Spellwright by Blake Charlton - ISBN 9780007332762
- The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell - ISBN 9780230748644
- Whitehawk by Simon Nolan - ISBN 9780955807879
- Kraken by China Mieville - ISBN 9780330492324
- Dracula's Ghost edited by Michael Sims - ISBN 9781408808252
- The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction edited by Arthur B Evans et al - ISBN 9780819569554
- The Pan Book of Horror Stories edited by Herbert van Thal - ISBN 9780330518680
- FILM & DVD
- Metropolis - Director Fritz Lang, 1927, Eureka Entertainment
- Not Like Others - Director Peter Pontikis, 2008, Chelsea Films
- The Horde - Directors Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, 2009, Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment
- GAMES
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Alan Wake: The Writer
Letters
- 73
It Happened to Me
- 76
Comix
- 79 Phenomenomix
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Reader Info
- 78
Masthead
- Editor - David Sutton
- Founding Editor - Bob Rickard
- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Sub Editor - Owen Whiteoak
- Staff Writer/Picture Researcher - Jen Ogilvie
- Book Reviews Editor - Val Stevenson
- Design Assistant - Nick Watts
- Work Experience - Richard Dodwell
- Resident Cartoonist - Hunt Emerson