FT424
Fortean Times #424 (November 2022)
- Release date: 6 Oct 2022
- Cover price: £4.95
- Cover Design: Etienne Gilfillan; stills from Häxan
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Contents
- 29 Wow! kate Bush's strange phenomena
- 30 Witchcraft through the ages
- 38 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- 46 The BBC's fright night: Ghostwatch at 30
Features
30 100 years of Häxan (cover story)
A century ago, Danish director Benjamin Christensen unleashed his visually ravishing silent film about the mediæval witch craze and transported modern audiences back to a nightmare world of devils, demons and possessed nuns. Andy Paciorek celebrates a true cinematic oddity.
38 The Devil's Taxi
In mediæval discourse, witches and wizards alike called on dark forces for their aerial travel to the Sabbat. However, their Satanic master was just as likely to use it to play some cruel prank on his credulous minions. Bob Rickard rides out, cautiously, to survey unpredictable results of these transvections.
46 The Haunted Screen: Ghostwatch at 30
Stu Neville rewinds to 1992 and explores the spooky TV sensation that terrified the nation... and then saw angry viewers up in arms at being 'duped' by this seminal 'fake' ghost story.
Series
66 Fortean Traveller - Dead Kings Road Trip, part one Lisa Gledhill
69 Peculiar Postcards - The three-legged pig of Dumpton Jan Bondeson
Forum
50 Fortean Fringe Mark Fernyhough
Strange Days
A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Queen in the clouds, BVM on the Wye, human kebab, deadly hailstones and more...
- 12 Archæology
- 14 Ghostwatch
- 18 Strange Continent
- 23 Mythconceptions
- 24 The Conspirasphere
- 28 The UFO Files
Regulars
- 02 Editorial
- 53 Reviews
- 61 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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