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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
Half eleven, that is. Er, that's it! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Lionel Fanthorpe is a lovely man. I once asked him to sign an anthology he had edited, full of stories by writers I'd never heard of, and he signed the contents page with the comment "All by me!" He's the Rooster Cogburn to Des's Texas Ranger. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
He is great. Still get xmas cards off him, and only met him once, about 15 years ago. Nice day, though. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I think we could do with a regular Fortean themed thread on here. I'll let you know when they announce the date of this year's Fortean Unconvention, Tony. Last one was in October but the dates can vary wildly from year to year (rather aptly). | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.172.64 |
Didn't you say he said sex offenders should be murdered, Tony? Not all that cuddly, then. He's in for a surprise when he gets around to reading the later bits of the bible. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I always found Lionel Fanthorpe to be a likeable eccentric but rather lightweight as the public face of Forteana. The magazine, books and website are much more academically focused and serious in their presentation of "damned phenomena" than his old populist TV Show and writings. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.233.114 |
Yes, Fortean stuff is important. Remember when Arthur C used to present it. It was the real news. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I still have my big hardcover Arthur C. Clarke books from the TV Series - a quality production that is fondly remembered. The late 70s-mid 80s was the high-water mark of serious interest in the paranormal, not to mention serious academic study. One of my most prized possessions is the complete run of 'The Unexplained' magazine (with Index) from back then - still the definitive encyclopedia of all things Fortean. You know I also have the complete run (in facsimile and original issue form) of the 'Fortean Times' going right back to #1 (then called simply 'The News') in 1973. A goldmine of great story ideas resides therein. Got this from Wikipedia (and can verify the fact I might add): The roots of the magazine that was to become 'Fortean Times' can be traced back to founder Bob Rickard's discovering the works of Charles Fort through the second-hand method of reading science-fiction stories: "John Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction (as Analog was then titled), for example," writes Rickard "encouraged many authors to expand Fort's data and comments into imaginative stories." He was talking about the likes of Bob Heinlein, Isaac Asimov & Arthur C. Clarke himself... the rest is history. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
"The Unexplained"...best magazine ever. Steve, do you still have the floppy vinyl record containing the EVP samples? That scared the bejesus out of my when I was a kid. Along with the photos of the charred remains of victims of SHC. Brrr... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
Proto - he said he'd kill a child molester if he caught one. He struck me as sort of Charles Bronsonish, but not aggressively so, more old fashioned. It did shock me though. BTW the prog yesterday was the most I've laughed in months. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
The scariest EVP recording I've heard was 'We want to kill you.' | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Sadly the EVP recording disappeared years ago, Zed, but I still remember the shivers it sent down my spine as well! The photo of the slippered foot and zimmer-frame above a burnt hole through the floorboards still haunts me to this day. All that was left of some poor old pensioner on his way to the lavatory! And the cover with the leering statue of the demon Asmodeus from the Church in Rennes-le-chateau scared me silly as well. You're right, the best part-work magazine series ever. I have all 156 issues plus the final Index issue and wouldn't part with them for love nor money! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.50.69 |
I remember that photograph - it gave me the creeps, too. I didn't have the magazines, but the photo was in a hardback encyclopedia of 'mystery' or the 'unexplained' or something like that (this would have been in the early seventies - around the time Lyall Watson's book Supernature came out). | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.209.111 |
I remember that spontaneous combustion picture too. The foot next to the walking frame was a lady's I think. 'We want to kill you.' It's the "we" that makes that so frightening. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.72 |
I, too, have a full set of The Unexplained. I didn't understand a great deal of it when I was young, but now I find the contents fascinating. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.255.42 |
Spontaneous Human Combustion should happen to all of us at a pre-determined age. Maybe 10. I'm sick of people - some chemicals scraped together into a shape with legs so it can walk around being obsessed with itself. "Blokes" with "aftershave", The Match on every television, people catching their own reflection in mirrors. Just look at one of them feeding. God, we're an awful phenomenon. We're the Unexplained. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
You've not had a good day, have you, Proto?  |