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Posted: 03-09-2001 11:37 Post subject: Online Resource for Oddities

Posting elsewhere, I suddenly remembered one of the main influences of my teenage years in the 80s - Omni Magazine. It had a column called anti-matter which usually contained some pretty high Forteana. I lost touch with the magazine when it went over to the internet fully a few years ago. After a bit (a few minutes) of searching

http://www.omnimag.com/antimatter/index.html

Take a look. The High Strangeness links off here are pretty good too

Enjoy

8¬)

Posted: 05-09-2001 13:34 Post subject:

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....................... Pop !

Posted: 24-11-2001 10:49 Post subject: Solomon's Key? Glad to comply!

the most famous and influential handbook of magic. Mathers' edition.

The Key of Solomon

( Don't have too much fun with the invisiblity spell, you little trouble makers. )

A Sixteenth-Century English translation of the Key of Solomon.

The Key of Knowledge

have fun.

by the way, i have a BUNCH of links to full text of renaissance and medieval grimoires. So if you want another extremly long post. All you have to do is ask! =D

Posted: 25-11-2001 13:32 Post subject:

Another interesting archive, including Solomon's Lesser and Greater Keys, Abramelin The Mage and some Necronimicon stuff:

http://www.chaosmatrix.com/frames.html?library

Last edited by Guest on 26-01-2003 00:11; edited 1 time in total

It's quite simple. Let's build a library right here.

Thanks to such excellent resources as Project Gutenberg it is possible to access such rare and out of copyright works of Fortean fiction and non-fiction as:

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

Sir James George Frazer,The Golden Bough

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Most of the files are zipped and in the form of plain text, or, occasionally, HTML.

That's a start. Find more. They should be connected to Fortean pursuits.

This could be really handy if you've got a laptop, or a PDA.

Posted: 26-01-2003 00:24 Post subject:

You don't just have to rely on Project Gutenberg, either. There are other resources out there, ripe for the plundering.

They don't come come much riper than this:

With a sudden rush that could not be foreseen -- with a strange howling cry that was enough to awaken terror in every breast, the figure seized the long tresses of her hair, and twining them round his bony hands he held her to the bed. Then she screamed -- Heaven granted her then power to scream. Shriek followed shriek in rapid succession. The bed-clothes fell in a heap by the side of the bed -- she was dragged by her long silken hair completely on to it again. Her beautifully rounded limbs quivered with the agony of her soul. The glassy, horrible eyes of the figure ran over that angelic form with a hideous satisfaction -- horrible profanation. He drags her head to the bed's edge. He forces it back by the long hair still entwined in his grasp. With a plunge he seizes her neck in his fang-like teeth -- a gush of blood, and a hideous sucking noise follows. The girl has swooned, and the vampyre is at his hideous repast!

From one of the most influential Penny Dreadfuls ever to chill the Victorian public's blood, Varney The Vampire; or The Feast Of Blood.

This was originally done as a serial, in penny parts, there are many, many episodes.

Posted: 26-01-2003 00:40 Post subject:

what's fortean in machiavelli's <the prince>??????????????????

Posted: 26-01-2003 00:42 Post subject: Charles Fort

Even some of Charles Fort's works are available online at, Mr X's Web Site .

The Book Of The Damned

New Lands

Lo!

Wild Talents

There is also more of Fort's work available on this excellent site.

Posted: 26-01-2003 01:24 Post subject:

Posted: 26-01-2003 01:44 Post subject:

the reaction may be fortean, the book is not, IMHHHHO. the coldest rational theory of power you may find, but, ok, it has to do with conspiracy theoriues...

Posted: 07-02-2003 18:17 Post subject:

Hello all,
Here's some more stuff from PG.
First of all, Charles MacKay's Memoir of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Is a Fortean library complete without it?
The Lock and Key Library is good. The second part ('True Stories of Modern Magic') contains a selection from Robert-Houdin's memoirs, and a couple of debunkings of Spiritualism.
Harry Houdini's Miracle Mongers has great histories and explanations of Fire Walking, Stone Eating, etc.
H. Stanley Redgrove's Bygone Beliefs is a 1919 book on Alchemy, Platonism, etc.
The Earth-oriented might be interested in The Marquis de Nadaillac's Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples.
Jessie Weston's From Ritual to Romance is also around, for those who want to get back to the modernist mythological revival.
And finally, a fictional favourite: Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan.

Sean

Arch-skeptic James "the Amazing Randi" Randi's 1995 encyclopedia can now be perused online in its entirety here.

Posted: 13-02-2003 19:12 Post subject:

Aaarrrggghhhhh, once again, fate craps on me, I went and brought it a couple of weeks ago.........damn, damn, bugger, damn, I could have spent that money on wine...

Posted: 13-02-2003 19:13 Post subject:

Books are somuch better than online gubbins, though.

Posted: 13-02-2003 19:17 Post subject:

I agree, but I could have been reading the book while drinking wine.................