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From the 1906 book The Outbursts of Everett True by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper. With thanks to Barnacle Press.

I was a used and rare bookseller in much of the 1990s. Selling books was a life-long goal and I am glad I was able do it. In January 1995 I had the chance to catalog a wonderful collection that disappeared soon after. This is that weird tale.

When I arrived at work that morning my boss said he had a project for me. Someone had brought in a major collection of works by and about Clark Ashton Smith, and I was to catalog what they were for sale. I spent several days doing nothing but that, each item more exciting than the last.

The day after I finished my catalog my boss said that the police had come asking about the collection. The seller, it seems, had stolen them from the rightful owner. The books disappeared back into the collection from whence they came. I have no record or memory of who the rightful owner was, I have no way to get in touch with him, and anyone who asks me to do so will be charged a five hundred dollar consultation fee.

What I do have is the catalog I prepared. This catalog has never been published, and I’m guessing that some of the items listed here have also never been published. Here is the catalog, errors and all, one of the many weird tales of my days as a bookseller.

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I – ART

LOVECRAFT/GARCIA by MIKE GARCIA – OUT OF PRINT
Ken Krueger North Hollywood 1975, 1st thus 4to wraps np, fine condition. HPL-inspired artwork from The Library Lovecraftian, reissued & enlarged in an edition limited to 995 copies.

HALLOWEEN IN ARKHAM by HARRY O. MORRIS – SIGNED COLOR PRINTS
Portfolio of fifteen 11″ x 8.5″ color prints in glossy folder with numbered matching envelope. Small stain to cover, smudges to envelope. There is an ocean of bad collage; these are not among them. Good use of color and perspective, very high quality prints.

MAGIC LANTERN by CHRISTINE PASANEN & HARRY MORRIS – OUT OF PRINT
Esoteric Order of Dagon APA Albuquerque 1981, 1st edition 8vo oblong wraps np, fine condition. Story by Pasanen, collages by Morris, color cover, very dreamy.

ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY CLARK ASHTON SMITH
Eleven original drawings by Clark Ashton Smith, generally 4″ x 3″, individually mounted. Profiles of human heads, some Arabesque, some portraits, some grotesques, all signed. ‘A Slave,’ ‘The Gorgio,’ ‘A Gentleman of the Renaissance,’ ‘Leopardi,’ ‘Parisians,’ ‘Alastor’ and five untitled drawings.

THE FANTASTIC ART OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH by DENNIS RICKARD – OUT OF PRINT
Mirage Press Baltimore 1973, 1st edition 4to wraps @ 48 pp, fine condition. Published in a single edition of approximately 15,000 copies, this book concentrates on the weird sculpture of C.A.S.: tiny stone fetishes with names like ‘Tsathoggua’ and ‘Mysteriarch.’ Accomplished, wish I had one. Introduced by Gahan Wilson.

GROTESQUES AND FANTASTIQUES by CLARK ASHTON SMITH – OUT OF PRINT
Gerry de la Ree, Saddle River 1973. 1st edition, 8vo wraps 40 pp, very good condition. Previously unpublished drawings and poems by C.A.S. from the personal collection of Gerry de la Ree. Printed in a first edition of 600 copies, of which this is #241.

CLARK ASHTON SMITH – ARTIST by GERRY DE LA REE – OUT OF PRINT
Hyperborian League, nd. 4to wraps 12 pp, very good condition. An appreciation of Smith as an artist, commercial and not-so-commercial. Illustrated.

CLARK ASHTON SMITH DUST JACKETS
Dust jackets for Lost Worlds, The Abomination of Yondo, Genius Loci and Out of Space and Time from UK publisher Neville Spearman. Folded once along spine, light wear else very good.

II – MAGAZINES

THE ARKHAM COLLECTOR – COMPLETE RUN AND DUPLICATES
Announcements of present and coming publications, bibliographical notes, art, poetry, letters, photographs, reproduced manuscripts, recommended reading, etc. Each 16mo issue contains a great deal of uncollected Arkham lore. Duplicate copies of Numbers Seven through Ten.

Number One – Summer 1967 – 24 pp – some underlining.
Number Two – Winter 1968 – 52 pp – some underlining.
Number Three – Summer 1968 – 88 pp.
Number Four – Winter 1969 – 124 pp – light smudging.
Number Five – Summer 1969 – 156 pp – light smudging.
Number Six – Winter 1970 – 180 pp – light smudging.
Number Seven – Summer 1970 – 220 pp – light smudging.
Number Eight – Winter 1971 – 256 pp.
Number Nine – Spring 1971 – 300 pp – light smudging.
Number Ten – Summer 1971 – 348 pp – light smudging.

FROM BEYOND THE DARK GATEWAY ISSUE FOUR
Silver Scarab Albuquerque 1977, 4to wraps 36 pp. HLP-ish fanzine with contributions and reprints from Campbell, Bloch, Morris and others.

INSIDE ISSUE TWO
Jonathan White New York 1963, 16mo wraps 54 pp.
Science fiction magazine including Maya by Clark Ashton Smith.

NYCTALOPS
Edited & with art by Harry Morris, high quality printing and lots of color art. All issues 4to size. Cockcroft, Garcia, Lumley, Morris, Sidney-Fryer, Wilgus – und Lovecraft, Lovecraft, uber alles. Scholarly, not just cheerleading. Watch the gothic aesthetic being born in these nine issues.

#9 – 1974 49 pp – errata page, rear page detached.
#11/12 – 1976 122 pp – good condition.
#13 – 1977 45 pp – very good condition.
#14 – 1978 52 pp – very good condition.
#16 – 1981 52 pp – very good condition.
#17 – 1982 63 pp – fine condition, duplicate, promotional card.
#18 – 1983 68 pp – fine condition, duplicate.

WHISPERS
Bloch, Campbell, Drake, Garcia, Howard, King, Lieber, Lumley, Russell, Wilson and plenty of HPLphilia. All issues 16mo.

V1 #2 December 1973 64 pp – very good condition.
V2 #4 December 1975 68 pp – duplicate, errata sheet, color plates, very good condition.
V3 #1 December 1976 67 pp – very good condition.
V3 #3-4 October 1978 132 pp – square bound, color plates, very good condition.

III – BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

FANTASY COLLECTOR’S ANNUAL 1974 – MAKES YOUR JAW DROP
Gerry de la Ree Saddle River 1971, 4to wraps 64 pp, very good condition. ‘In the 36 years I have been active as a reader and collector in the fantasy and science fiction fields, I have amassed a great quantity of rarities and unique material. These are, of course, part of the joys of collecting. But to let such things merely collect dust in file cabinets or on bookshelves seems rather pointless.’ So de la Ree published this volume of glimpses into his truly astounding collection: unpublished letters, poems and art by E. A. Poe, Mahlon Blaine, H. P. Lovecraft – get the idea? Number 232 of a limited first edition of 500 copies.

INDEX TO THE VERSE IN WEIRD TALES by THOMAS COCKCROFT – OUT OF PRINT
Thomas G. L. Cockcroft, Lower Hutt NZ 1960, 1st edition, 8vo sq. wraps 16 pp. Arranged by title, then by author, as well as verse included in fiction, Virgil Finlay’s poetry series, Oriental Magic, a magazine index and The Thrill book. Signed by the author, limited to 500 copies.

A HISTORY OF THE NECROMOMICON by H. P. LOVECRAFT – SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION
Necronomicon Press West Warwick 1977, 16mo wraps np, fine condition. The first edition of this title was limited to a printing of four hundred and fifty copies, fifty copies of the original five hundred being lost by the U. S. Postal Service. This edition, the second, consists of five hundred numbered copies, of which this is #113.

H. P. LOVECRAFT: A SYMPOSIUM – OUT OF PRINT
Riverside Quarterly Los Angeles, 1st edition, nd 16mo wraps 17 pp. Robert Block, Arthur Jean Cox, Fritz Leiber, Sam Russel and Leland Sapiro on HPL, transcribed from the 24 October 1963 meeting of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Annotated by August Derleth.

THE OCCULT LOVECRAFT by H. P. LOVECRAFT
Gerry de la Ree Saddle River 1975, 1st edition 8vo wraps 40 pp, fine condition. First appearance anywhere of two essays on the occult by HPL, with stellar artwork by Stephen Fabian, introductions by Frank Belknap Long and Samuel Loveman, and occult commentary by Anthony Raven. Limited to an edition of 990, of which this is #182. Just try and find this one anywhere else. Buy it before I do, please.

THE LAST OF THE GREAT ROMANTIC POETS by DONALD SIDNEY-FRYER – OUT OF PRINT
Silver Scarab Press Albuquerque 1973, 1st edition 4to wraps @ 26 pp, very good condition. An attempt to define the romantic tradition from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to modern times, firmly placing the Smith / Lovecraft / Howard circles therein. Illustrated by Herb Arnold.

THE FANES OF DAWN by CLARK ASHTON SMITH – LIMITED EDITION
The Fugitive Poems / Second Series – Fourth Volume / Xiccarph Edition 1976, 8vo wraps with special envelope, np. Book in as new condition, envelope very good. A total of 303 copies of this edition were printed, of which this is #28. Eight poems. Errata sheet.

SEER OF THE CYCLES by CLARK ASHTON SMITH – LIMITED EDITION
The Fugitive Poems / Second Series – Fifth Volume / Xiccarph Edition 1976, 8vo wraps with special envelope np. Book in as new condition, envelope lightly smudged. A total of 325 copies of this edition were printed, of which this is #28. Eleven poems.

THE BURDEN OF THE SUNS by CLARK ASHTON SMITH – LIMITED EDITION
The Fugitive Poems / Second Series – Sixth Volume / The Burden of the Suns. Xiccarph Edition 1977, 8vo wraps with special envelope np. Book in as new condition, envelope very lightly smudged. A total of 295 copies of this edition were printed, of which this is #28. Eight poems.

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY PUBLISHED BY ARKHAM HOUSE AND MYCROFT & MORAN 1939 – 1976 by DICK SPELMAN – OUT OF PRINT
Institute for Specialized Literature, North Hollywood nd, 10 pp 4to wraps, very light wear. Indexed by author and title, date, pages, copies and original price of the two publishing houses listed, cross-indexed by title.

IV – MANUSCRIPTS

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH
Predominantly poems, some translated prose and poetry; one page of English language text with date unless noted. Includes typed and mimeographed manuscripts, some with tape repairs. Dates range from 1915 to 1929.

ONE
Artemis – poem, signed, tape repairs.
Autumn Twilight – poem with corrections, signed.
Baillement – poem, signed, tape repairs.
The Barrier – poem with corrections, signed.
Beauty – poem with corrections, signed, tape repairs.
Beauty Implacable – poem, signed, notation at bottom, tape repairs.
Chance – poem with corrections, signed, tape repairs.
The Chimera – poem with corrections, signed.
Connaisance / Similitudes – two poems, signed, tape repairs.
Dead Love – poem with corrections, signed.
The Desert Garden – poem with corrections, signed.
Desolation – poem with corrections, signed.
Enigma – poem with corrections, signed.
En Sourdine – poem with corrections, tape repairs.
The Ennuye – poem with corrections, signed.
Exotic Perfume – poem, signed, tape repairs.
Faun-Lilies / Plum-Lovers – two poems, signed, tape repairs.
The Garden of Dreams – poem with corrections, signed.
Impression – poem with corrections, signed.
Incognita – poem, signed, tape repairs.
The Incubus of Time – poem with corrections, signed.
Inheritance – poem with corrections, signed.
Laus Mortis – poem, signed.
Le Mauvais Moine – poem with corrections, signed, tape repairs.
Les Aveugles – translation with corrections, signed.
Les Hiboux / Le Coucher d’un Soleil Romantique – two translations w/corr., signed.
Loss – poem, signed, tape repairs.
Maya – poem, signed, tape repairs.
Memorial – poem with corrections, signed.
Mirage – poem, signed.
Mirrors – poem with corrections, signed.
Mystery – poem, signed, tape repairs.
Necromancy – poem with corrections, signed, tape repairs.
Nocturne – poem with corrections, signed.
Moon-Dawn – poem with corrections, signed.
Nightfall – poem, signed.
A Prayer – poem with corrections, signed.
Psalm – poem with corrections, signed.
Query – poem with corrections, signed, tape repairs.
Reclamation – poem with corrections, signed.
The Refuge of Beauty – poem, signed.
The Remorse of the Dead – poem, signed, tape repairs.
Satiety / Song – two poems with corrections, signed, tape repairs.
Secret Love / Forgotten Sorrow – two poems, signed, tape repairs.
Solution – poem with corrections, signed.
Suggestion – poem with corrections, signed.
Vaticinations / The Autumn Lake / Harmony – three poems on a single page.
hall Meet / Brumal – two poems, signed.

This collection also includes envelope to Samuel Loveman from C.A.S. dated 5 March 1919 and 8 February 1980 letter from publisher / collector Gerry de la Ree to ‘John’ regarding the sale of C.A.S. poems.

TWO
Alexandrins – poem, French, signed with notation.
Canticle – poem, signed.
Clair De Lune – poem, correction.
Cumuli – poem, signed.
The Denial of St. Peter – translation, signed.
En Sourdine – translation, signed.
February – poem, signed.
L’Amor et le Crane – translation with notation.
L’Amour Supreme – poem, signed.
Le Faune – poem.
L’Imprevu – translation, two pages, signed.
Madrigal of Evanscence – poem, signed.
Paiennerie – poem, French, signed.
Solvet Seclum – translation.
Sonnet Lunaire – poem, French, signed.
Spectral Life – poem.
Sufficiency – poem- signed.
Une Vie Spectrale – poem, French, signed.
The Vampire – translation, signed.
Vaticination – poem, signed.

From the 1906 book The Outbursts of Everett True by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper. With thanks to Barnacle Press.

Fortean content in the first five years of OMNI Magazine.  Compiled October 1997, previously unpublished.

Including notations for articles relating to accupuncture, alchemy, alternative energy sources, the Amazing Randi, ancient astronauts, artificial intelligence, astral projection, astrology, the Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot, cargo cults, cattle mutilation, communication with non-humans, creationism, cryptozoology, Dianetics, dinosaurs, dowsing, earthquakes, firewalking, Uri Geller, gravity research, hidden planets, hoaxes, hypnosis, killer clowns, kirilian photography, lake monsters, life on Mars, mind control, mystery boats, Muzak, near death experiences, Nostrodomus, parapsychology, perpetual motion, planetary alignment disasters, psychic phenomenon, pyramid power, reincarnation, the Rosicrucians, SETI, the Shroud of Turin, spontaneous human combustion, teleportation, TM, test-tube babies, the Tunguska explosion, UFOs, vampires, volcanos, voodoo, weather control, Velikovski, weird science, yellow rain and zombies.

V1#1 10/78
p 12 / letter [UFO] Melinda Moore
p 14 / letter [dowsing] Ted Kaufman
p 14 / letter [astral projection] Martha Fotinos
p 28 / The Sciene Conflict [UFO] James Oberg
p 44 / Life In Vents [czoo] ?
p 46 / Kirilian Photography [k.p.] ?
p 48 / Electricity & Weather [ e. & w.] ?
p 49 / quote ["The universe is... queerer than we can suppose."] J.B.S. Haldine
p 49 / Magnetic Sense of Sharks [czoo] Kenneth Rose
p 50 / Birds [czoo] Jeff Cox
p 63 / Listening for Life [in outer space] Alton Blakeslee
p 92 / The Turin Shroud [t.s.] Barbara Culliton
p 149 / advertisement [Project Blue Book] Blue Book Coordinator

V1#2 11/78
p 24 / Moonglows [mg] Patrick Moore
p 31 / Betty Hill [UFO] James Oberg
p 41 / Talking Bird [czoo] Barbara Ford
p 105 / Communicating with Dolphins [czoo] John Lilly
p 113 / Lifetides [para] Lyall Watson

V1#3 12/78
p 10 / letter [UFO] Barry Goldwater
p 12 / letter [UFO] Sam Piazza
p 12 / letter [UFO] Charles Labbe
p 12 / letter [UFO] Al Porterfield
p 12 / letter [UFO] R. Brown
p 12 / letter [UFO] James Irwin
p 20 / Star of the Magi [s.o.t.m.] Mark Chartrand
p 32 / Queen of the UFOs [UFO] James Oberg
p 40 / Einstein’s Brain [where is it?] ?
p 108 / PSI Burn: A Study of Psysiological Deterioration in Parapsychological Experimentation [satire] David Searles
p 146 / Man Will Never Fly [m.w.n.f. society] Lawrence Maddry

V1#4 1/79
p 8 / article [UFO] Frank Kendig
p 12 / letter [UFO] Terry Hansen
p 12 / letter [UFO] Robert Barrow
p 32 / The Coyne Incident [UFO] James Oberg
p 71 / intv: I. J. Good [weather control, UFO, more] Christopher Evans
p 117 / advertisement [Dianetics] Church of Scientology
p 125 / advertisement [Project Blue Book] Blue Book Coordinator
p 130 / letter [Velikovsky] Garry Tillery

V1#5 2/79
p 6 / article [text-tube baby hoax?] Frank Kendig
p 10 / letter [Einstein's Brain] Gerard der Leun
p 12 / letter [czoo] William Bond
p 32 / Astronomy and the Flying Saucer [UFO] James Oberg
p 39 / Flippant Earth [magnetic pole switching] ?
p 42 / More Ancient Astronauts [A.A.] ?
p 103 / Nutrition Fads and Fallacies [N.F.a.F.] Daniel Greenberg
p 110 / advertisement [Love of the Two-Armed Form] Dawn Horse Press
p 137 / letter [Betty Hill map] Charles Atterberg

V1#6 3/79
p 10 / letter [PSI Burn comments] Alan Vaughan
p 32 / UFO’s at the U.N. [UFO] James Oberg
p 117 / advertisement [Other magazine; a little of everything] Other
p 127 / advertisement [The Discovery of the Wingstars; fossils found in meteorites] Wingstar Research Society
p 137 / letter [g.r.] Peter Singelakis
p 137 / letter [w.s.] David Hargrave
p 137 / letter [all mathematics prooven wrong, mathematically] H. Murker
p 140 / next issue [static gravity hoax] ?
p 140 / next issue [loch ness] ?

V1#7 4/79
p 6 / article [parapsychologists accused of sloppiness] Frank Kendig
p 12 / letter [UFO] Ben Price
p 16 / Turning the Crank [crank science] Mark Chartrand
p 27 / New Scandal in Psychic Research? [para] Scot Morris
p 52 / First Encounter [UFO] E. Speigle
p 77 / Static Gravity [w.s. April-Fool] Christopher Priest
p 115 / advertisement [Undreamed-of Possibilities] Self-Realization Fellowship
p 121 / advertisement [Dianetics] Church of Scientology

V1#8 5/79
p 10 / letter [religious birds] Eugene Marquis
p 12 / letter [anti-gravity, incl J. R. R. Searl] Allan Grise
p 32 / * Global Disclosures [UFO] Harry Lebelson
p 92 / Return to Loch Ness [czoo] J. Chesternan and M. Marten
p 117 / advertisement [Dianetics] Church of Scientology
p 125 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 128 / letter [UFO] David Travis
p 128 / letter [UFO] David Schroth
p 128 / letter [czoo: Loch Ness M.] B. Goldman
p 130 / letter [PSI Burns commentary] Charles Honorton
p 146 / The Gulibility Factor [UFO] Thomas Monteleone

V1#9 6/79
p 12 / letter [UFO] Jeff Henry
p 22 / A Hidden Earth [new planets in our solar system] Patcick Moore
p 32 / Saucer-Eyed Spies [UFO] Art Gratti
p 36 / Clarke’s 1st Law ["When a distinguished scientist says something is impossible... he is very probably wrong."] Arthur Clarke
p 40 / Ignored Prediction [earthquake] Tony Fusco
p 41 / Magic Stone [bezoar protects against arsenic poisoning] Don Fabun
p 42 / Medical Milestones [2nd heart discovered, more] K. S.
p 96 / Flight of the Dragon [czoo] Peter Dickinson
p 134 / letter [czoo] David Edelshick
p 134 / letter [cargo cults] Tully Scott
p 136 / letter [stacic gravity hoax commentary] Anthony Blokzyl
p 146 / Vampires Revamped [V as a form of rabies] Bruce Wallace

V1#10 7/79
p 10 / letter [static gravity hoax commentary] Robin Carpenter
p 10 / letter [static gravity hoax commentary] Norman Mclead
p 10 / letter [para] Gerry Erberich
p 14 / letter [U. Geller] Arthur Clarke
p 14 / letter [UFO] Harry Lebelson
p 14 / letter [para] G. Dew and L. Hillshafer
p 18 / A Bit of Lunacy [moon in language and legend] Mark Chartrand
p 32 / Trance Figures [UFO] Allan Hendry
p 37 / Loch Ness Dolphins [czoo] O.D.
p 41 / Year of the Atom [nuclear hijinx] Douglass Colligan
p 41 / quote ["The most beautiful experience... is the mysterious..."] Albert Einstein
p 42 / The Earthquake Boom [e.b.] Dan Ross
p 126 / letter [UFO] John Harding
p 127 / letter [para] Vickie Lloyd
p 127 / letter [turning the crank commentary] A. Abajian
p 127 / letter [UFO] Paul Krause
p 129 / next issue [ancient astronauts evaluated] ?
p 133 / advertisement [Dianetics] Church of Scientology

V1#11 8/79
p 10 / letter [UFO] Jon Stone
p 12 / letter [para] Brenda Thomas
p 30 / UFO Over Iran [UFO] James Oberg
p 40 / UFO Tips [UFO] Terrence Dickinson
p 44 / White Dwarfs and Green Men [a. a.] Carl Sagan
p 128 / letter [a. a.] John Tran
p 128 / letter [UFO] Janice Tonietto
p 135 / letter [UFO] Philip Klass
p 135 / letter [UFO] Jeffrey Benner

V1#12 9/79
p 12 / letter [Flight of the Dragon commentary; czoo] Eugene Marquis
p 32 / True UFOs [UFO] James Oberg
p 37 / Quake Lights [earthquake lights] Tom Kovach
p 41 / Animal Trivia [weird animal facts] S. D.
p 42 / Viruses from Outer Space [v. as "messages" from o.s.] O. D.
p 112 / advertisement [What is Scientology?] Church of Scientology
p 113 / advertisement [Undreamed-of Possibilities] Self-Realization Fellowship
p 129 / advertisement [The Cycles of Heaven] Avon paperback
p 135 / advertisement [Dianetics] Church of Scientology
p 142 / letter [czoo] Jason MacCallum
p 142 / letter [cargo cults] Alan Vaughan

V2#1 10/79
p 18 / letter [vampires] Count Dracula
p 44 / Tunguska [Tunguska event] James Oberg
p 57 / Yogis [y. exhibit amazing body control] D. S.
p 58 / quote ["We think so because other people all think so... "] Henry Sidgwick
p 108 / Unseen Yeti [czoo] John Hunt
p 140 / advertisement [I am magazine] I am
p 163 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 165 / advertisement [Metascience Quarterly] Metascience
p 165 / advertisement [Nebulon Gazette] Nebulon Gazette

V2#11 11/79
p 10 / letter [astrology debunked] Philip Ianan
p 12 / letter [Sagan anc. astro. article commentary] Stan Stephenson
p 12 / letter [Sagan anc. astro. article commentary] Don Peterson
p 30 / Alien Metals [UFO] Harry Lebelson
p 36 / Pregnant Men [p.m.] Dava Sobel
p 38 / Gay Vaccine [gay men used in hepatitis vaccine trial (AIDS
conspiracy?)] Joel Davis
p 44 / Antimatter Revealed [ws] Robert Forward
p 80 / interview: Carl Sargent [para] Christopher Evans
p 84 / Illegal Aliens [extraterrestrials and the law] Robert Freitas
p 128 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosecrucians
p 142 / advertisement [The UFO Handbook] Doubleday
p 142 / letter [para] James Bobula

V2#3 12/79
p 10 / letter [czoo: yeti] John Hunt
p 10 / letter [UFO] Giles Guthrie
p 16 / letter [UFO] John Warren
p 16 / letter [UFO] David Hofer
p 18 / letter [anc. astro] Gena Davies
p 28 / Syncronicity [s.] Bernard Dixon
p 40 / Alternatives [UFO] Robert Wilson
p 45 / quote ["Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."] Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
p 46 / Fossil Footprints [f.f.] Alton Blakeslee
p 49 / quote ["Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they have specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as anybody else."] H. J. Eysenck
p 50 / quote ["Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have."] Victor Weiskopf
p 108 / Prizes [Klass anti-UFO prize] Scot Morris
p 130 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosecrucians
p 134 / advertisement [UFO: The Documented Evidence] Methuen Publications

V2#4 1/80
p 12 / letter [Viruses from Outer Space debunked] Deborah Katz
p 28 / Death on the Range [cattle mut.] Harry Lebelson
p 40 / Urban Legends [u.l.] D. C.
p 42 / quote ["Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects"] Will Rogers
p 62 / interview: Jacques Vallee [UFO] Christopher Evans
p 88 / Talk to the Animals [signing apes] Eugene Linden
p 116 / advertisement [Mystery Stalks the Prairie; c. mut] Niagra Sales Company
p 117 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 122 / erratum [Yogi, 10/79] editor of OMNI
p 126 / letter [Dracula debunking] Andras Rozsa

V2#5 2/80
p 10 / letter [czoo: yeti] Bill Tabit
p 32 / Alone Again [UFO] James Oberg
p 41 / Wildlife Trivia [weird animal facts] S. D.
p 41 / quote ["Due to unforseen circumstances, we must postpone the Psychic Fair...] Tamara Rand Institute
p 42 / Psychic Cops [para] D. C.
p 109 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 120 / letter [Illegal Aliens commentary] Jane Morgenstern
p 120 / letter [Illegal Aliens commentary] Gabrielle Davis

V2#6 3/80
p 14 / letter [synchronicity] Sebastian Foti
p 36 / Phantom Moonlight [UFO] James Oberg
p 45 / Invisibility Lessons [TM debunking] James Randi
p 48 / Eyeball Flora [plants grow in eyeballs] S. D.
p 49 / Psychic Scoreboard [para] Joel Davis
p 128 / letter [Randi, Dixon commentary] Steven Yates
p 129 / letter [Unseen Yeti commentary] James Justus
p 132 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 141 / letter [Talk to the Animals commentary] Eugene Linden
p 146 / Thinking out Loud [para] Martin Pitt

V2#7 4/80
p 10 / letter [Talk to the Animals commentary] Edd Doerr
p 12 / advertisement [czoo: tube worms discovered with RCA camera] RCA
p 14 / letter [Talk to the Animals commentary] Jim Stone
p 14 / letter [Death on the Range commentary] Alan Bingham
p 32 / Close Encounter [UFO] Harry Lebelson
p 39 / Space Oddities [weird things spotted by Brittish satellites] Douglas Colligan
p 76 / interview [James Randi] Scot Morris
p 120 / advertisement [Haiti ("Voodoo, you can feel it in the air...")] Haiti Gov’t Tourist Bureau
p 128 / advertisement [Undreamed-of Possibilities] Self-Realization Fellowship
p 130 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 131 / advertisement [two Genesis-as-science books by R. Jastrow] Warner Books
p 138 / letter [Jaques Vallee commentary] D. Anderson

V2#8 5/80
p 10 / letter [UFO] Arlan Andrews
p 20 / Galactic Germs [germs from space] Bernard Dixon
p 32 / Honest Illusions [UFO] James Oberg
p 40 / quote ["Heaven and Earth were created... Oct. 23, 4004 BC..."] John Lightfoot
p 41 / Nature Trivia [czoo] S.D.
p 41 / quote ["Rail travel... is not possible..."] Dionysys Lardner
p 137 / advertisement [Crystal Pyramid Pendant] Cosmic Connections
p 137 / advetisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 138 / letter [cattle mutilation] Rod Faust

V2#9 6/80
p 10 / letter [telepathy, interspecies communication] David Palter
p 12 / letter [TM, levitation] Roane Dantzler
p 20 / Jupiter’s Noneffect [planetary allignment disasters] John Gribbin
p 32 / The French Connection [UFO] Charles Berlitz
p 39 / Life on Mars [l.o.m.] L. D.
p 42 / quote ["Science is the topography of ignorance"] Oliver Holmes
p 122 / letter [TM, levitation] Gregory Trulen
p 124 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 130 / Save the Toad! [giant flying vampire toad hoax] Norman Spinrad

V2#10 7/80
p 10 / letter [Shroud of Turin] Sandy Shakocius
p 12 / letter [Amazing Randi, Sagan] Richard Currey
p 12 / letter [Amazing Randi] M. Stone
p 12 / letter [Amazing Randi] Immanuel Chin
p 12 / letter [Amazing Randi] Peter Schwartz
p 12 / letter [reply to above] James Randi
p 14 / letter [UFO] Ronald Berends
p 14 / letter [cattle mutilations] Michael Albers
p 24 / Ghost Story [para experiments] Morton Schatzman
p 30 / The Russian Connection [UFO] James Oberg
p 35 / Mutilation Madness [cattle mutilation] James Randi
p 125 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V2#11 8/80
p 16 / letter [planetary alignment disasters] Mary Boland
p 32 / Repeaters [UFO] James Oberg
p 36 / Blow to Creation Myth [scientific creationism] Joel Davis
p 38 / Nastiness by Degree [weather and social unrest] Peter Evans
p 39 / Narwhal Mystery [why the tooth?] Barbara Ford
p 40 / Scientists and Monsters [czoo] D. C.
p 41 / quote ["If the scientist doesn't start with a sense of mystery, he doesn't start."] Rene Dubos
p 111 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V2#12 9/80
p 10 / letter [electronic mind control] Laura Collins
p 10 / letter [giant flying vampire toads] Athens Friends of the Toads
p 10 / letter [giant flying vampire toads] Ray Hermann
p 10 / letter [giant flying vampire toads] Steve Conklin
p 10 / letter [giant flying vampire toads] Suzanne Helder
p 10 / letter [reply: giant flying vampire toad article was a hoax] editor
p 14 / letter [TM] Edd Doerr
p 14 / letter [TM] Marvin Minsky
p 18 / Sea Serpent Survey [czoo] Bernard Dixon
p 32 / Jung Ideas [UFO] Harry Lebelson
p 36 / quote ["No quackery is ever rejected by the American public until a more scientific-sounding but inherently less plausible quackery is ready to take its place."] H. Mencken
p 39 / quote ["Sciene is nothing but trained and organized common sense."] Thomas Huxley
p 41 / quote ["For the people liable to be killed by earthquakes, quake prediction is certainly significant."] Gordon Taylor
p 42 / Animal Vibrations [animals and earthquakes] S.D.
p 113 / letter [Amazing Randi] C. Anderson
p 113 / reply [to above] James Randi
p 113 / letter [UFO] Mike Bucker
p 113 / letter [UFO] Peter Adams
p 113 / letter [UFO] Richard Bridges
p 120 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V3#1 10/80
p 10 / letter [Which is hotter, heaven or hell?] M. Eckard
p 10 / letter [Shroud of Turin] John Wagner
p 12 / letter [electronic mind control] Bill Katz
p 30 / Minnesota Attack [UFO] James Oberg
p 35 / The Creationist’ “Equal Time” [scientific creationism] Ben Bova
p 37 / ESP and the CIA [psychic spies] Judith Hooper
p 38 / quote ["Sciene is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it."] Aubery Eben
p 40 / Wildlife Tales [weird animal stories] S. D.
p 42 / quote ["Like a mutation, an idea may be recorded in the wrong time, to lie latent like a recessive gene and spring once more to life in an auspicious era."] Loren Eiseley
p 155 / UFO Unemployment Insurance [UFO] D. T.
p 155 / Astrology Defense [a. in the courts] D. T.
p 156 / Face From Space [face on Mars] Harry Lebelson
p 156 / Psychic Healer [psy healing] Allan Maurer
p 158 / Sumerian Astronauts [a. a.] ???
p 158 / quote [exerpt from "backscrewing theory of gravity"] George Gillette
p 158 / quote ["Apart from the known and the unknown, what is there?"] Harold Pinter
p 163 / letter [cattle mutilations] C. Harper
p 163 / letter [planetary alignment disasters] Terry Fischer
p 182 / Calendar [UFO, dowsing, man will never fly society meetings announced] Geoffrey Golson
p 188 / advertisement [Autobiography of a Yogi] Self-Realization Fellowship
p 188 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V3#2 11/80
p 10 / letter [creationism] Michael May
p 32 / More Soviet Encounters [UFO] E. Speigel
p 36 / Death on Mars [simulated life on m.] Nick Engler
p 39 / Hoku Point [ice on hands cures headaches] Allan Maurer
p 40 / Mokele-Mbembe [czoo: contemporary african dinosaurs] Douglas Colligan
p 42 / Maligned Squid [czoo: giant s. sightings] S. D.
p 121 / letter [planetary allignment disasters] Terry Fischer
p 123 / advertisement [The Necronomicon] Necronomicon
p 126 / article [volcanic prediction by Janet Cullen-Tanaka] Dick Teresi
p 134 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V3#3 12/80
p 36 / Target: Denmark [UFO] Harry Lebelson
p 41 / Kudzu [weird k. facts] Stuart Diamond
p 41 / quote ["The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk."] H. Mencken
p 42 / Life From the Clouds [l. originated in c.] Alton Blakeslee
p 44 / quote ["Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks, but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house."] Henri Poincare
p 136 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V3#4 1/81 : missing, but contains perpetual motion article by James Randi

V3#5 2/81
p 12 / letter [god in science fiction] David Bowring
p 14 / letter [electronic mind control] Sidney Weinstein
p 24 / Hypnotic Witness [h. memory recovery] R. McColm
p 32 / Space Encounters [UFO] James Oberg
p 36 / Horned Wonder [czoo: mystery fossil skull] Douglas Colligan
p 37 / Chorus Girl Hypothesis [thought-transferance among birds disproven] Barbara Ford
p 42 / Killer Wave [k.w. responsible for bernumda triangle?] Tom Summer
p 45 / In Through the Out Door [subliminal mind control] Eric Lander
p 120 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V3#6 3/81
p 35 / Useless Animal Slaughter [vivisection] Brandon Kuker-Reines
p 40 / quote ["Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."] Winston Churchill
p 42 / quote ["The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief"] William Thompson
p 95 / Interview: Donald Symons [scientific proof: women exist to serve men!] Claire Warga
p 100 / Postmarks [stamps of the world, incl. Grenada UFO stamp] Marc Kaplan
p 140 / Washington Debate [UFO] E. Speigel and K. Ehrlich
p 144 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V3#7 4/81
p 12 / letter [Amazing Randi, perpetual motion] William Watkins
p 12 / letter [god in science fiction] Susan Saltiel
p 26 / The New Biofeedback [biofeedback] Bob Kall
p 35 / The Stealth Affair [stealth planes hype, debunking] Paul Nahin
p 40 / Animal Trivia [weird animal facts] Stuart Diamond
p 40 / Death Blow from Space [asteroid killed dinosaurs] Joel Davis
p 41 / quote ["Nothing is rich but the inexhaustable wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep."] Ralph Emerson
p 42 / quote ["The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."] Ralph Emerson
p 76 / Psychic Search [psy] Stephan Schwartz
p 118 / People [Uri Geller section] Dick Teresi
p 135 / advertisement [booklet on "space aliens"] American Raelian Movement
p 140 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 141 / advertisement [The Necronomicon] Necronomicon

V3#8 5/81
p 10 / letter [subliminal mind control] Craig Waller
p 12 / letter ["right to life"] Sandra Seipke
p 36 / Mainland Mysteries [UFO] Paul Dong
p 45 / quote ["Kids get ideas about UFOs where I learned about sex: the tabloids and the sleazy press."] J. Hynek
p 45 / Whistling Air Crashes [80% pilots whistle before crash] Allan Maurer
p 50 / Psychic Fools [psy debunk experiment] Kendrick Frazier
p 93 / advertisement [books incl. Stonehenge and Mystery of the Pyramids] Natural Science Book Club
p 120 / People [incl. Tut curse debunk] Dick Teresi
p 128 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 131 / letter [hypnotic memory retreival] The Amazing Kreskin
p 131 / letter [Amazing Randi, perpetual motion] Edward Cheesbrough
p 138 / Last Word [psy] James Randi

V3#9 6/81
p 16 / letter [Sumerian Astronauts] Zecharia Sitchin
p 44 / Gossamer Wings [UFO] Daniel Cohen
p 48 / Soul Gun [kirilian search for soul] Minael Jeffries
p 50 / Mammary Madness [photos of women in stuffed bras judged "less intelligent" in study] Ellen Bilgore
p 53 / Brain? Who Needs It? [hydrocephalus students with literally no brain and 120 IQ] Judith Hooper
p 54 / quote ["There is more religion in men's science than there is science in their religion."] Henry Thoreau
p 129 / advertisement [Three Mile Island Creamy Mushroom Dressing] The Catalyst Company
p 134 / People [psychic tattoo consultant Jamie Summers] Dick Teresi
p 147 / Gravity Watch [g. is not a constant?] David Lynch
p 148 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V3#10 7/81
p 12 / letter [perpetual motion, Amazing Randi] Dave Martell
p 12 / letter [perpetual motion, Amazing Randi] Paul Nahin
p 27 / Music [Muzak] Scott Cohen
p 32 / Hoax [UFO] James Oberg
p 35 / Feminism and the Brain [men's brains are superior] Judith Hooper
p 37 / Animal Revenge [a. getting r.] Stuart Diamond
p 39 / Pet Neuroses [animal psychiatry] Douglas Colligan
p 41 / quote ["In the final analysis, randomness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder"] R. Hamming
p 42 / quote ["Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."] Oscar Wilde
p 69 / interview [Albert Hofmann] David Monagan
p 109 / advertisement [catalog incl. alternate energy, biofeedback] Edmund Scientific
p 110 / Competition ["rumors" of the choking doberman / conspiracy sort] Scot Morris
p 119 / letter [Stealth questions] John Price
p 123 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V3#11 8/81
p 10 / letter [psy. archeology] Ed Starkins
p 14 / letter [mystery spots] James Swan
p 41 / Hunger Cues [looking at food can make you fat] Stuart Diamond
p 41 / Reasonable Chimp [animal intelligence] Alton Blakeslee
p 69 / Project Tesla [Tesla research continued] ?
p 101 / letter [octopus intelligence] Linda Palter
p 108 / advertisement [UFOlarm UFO detecter] Tucker Scientific
p 108 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 116 / letter [mystery spots] Ray Hyman

V3#12 9/81
p 12 / letter [big breasts and intelligence] Paula Siddens
p 12 / letter [new religion: Random Factor Faith] Eugene Shelby
p 14 / letter [early mystery airships] Carl Baumann
p 34 / The Pine Bush Adventure [UFO] Harry Lebelson
p 45 / Half a Brain [is all we need] Douglas Colligan
p 45 / Human Tidal Waves [human rhythms & behavior linked to moon] Norbert Lempert
p 48 / quote ["A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth."] Thomas Mann
p 48 / Shock Treatment [is useless and traumatic] David Cohen
p 50 / Surprise Sight [woman born blind, corrective surgery, knew colors anyway] David Colligan
p 50 / quote ["I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, and the conclusion is false. The hundreth time I am right."] Albert Einstein
p 71 / advertisement [books incl. mysteries of pyramids, stonehenge] Natural Science Book Club
p 81 / The Healing Bran [think yourself healthy] Douglas Garr
p 127 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 133 / letter [animal IQ] Cameron Stante
p 133 / letter [creationism] N. Spencer
p 146 / Last Word [amazing collection of science quotes... they ain't so smart] Bernard Dixon

V4#1 10/81
p 12 / letter [acupuncture, Amazing Randi] K. Chan
p 12 / letter [NY White sewer pot rumor expounded] S. Wishevsky
p 14 / letter [psy slurs] Ray Hyman
p 14 / letter [psy defence] Stephan Sscwartz
p 20 / Shape Shapes Shape ["morphogenic fields" effect form & behavior] Bernard Dixon
p 26 / Man Bites Man [human bite attacks] Patrick Huyghe
p 46 / Binge Disorder [bulemia study] Douglas Colligan
p 47 / Sleep-Wake Biofeedback [b. to stay awake, go to sleep] Robert Kall
p 70 / Ghosts and Goblins [waiting for hard para evidence] ?
p 73 / Intelligent Machines [coming soon] ?
p 133 / Mobius Psi-Q Test [para test] S. Sschwartz and R. Mattei
p 169 / UFO Update [UFO] Stella Iner
p 170 / Unicorn [goat w-horn by Glory and G'zell] Harry Lebelson
p 170 / quote [about "heresy"] Isaac Asimov
p 170 / Stalking Anomalies [Center for Scientific Anomalies Research in MI] Douglas Colligan
p 170 / quote ["There is no ox so dumb as the orthodox"] George Gillette
p 170 / Mystery Ship [1976 mystery boat photo] Harry Lebelson
p 171 / Soviet Psychics [s. p.] Allan Maurer
p 171 / quote ["Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."] Albert Einstein
p 172 / Emotional Alarm Clock [hypnosic monitor] Robert Kall
p 172 / Coincidence [maybe not so rare or odd] Kendrick Frazier
p 172 / Fang Count [vampire census] Allan Maurer
p 183 / advertisement [catalog incl. biofeedback and alt. energy] Edmund Scientific
p 184 / Burroughs at the Bunker [WSB on women as "genetic mistake"] Regina Weinreich
p 192 / letter [UFO] Dean Kurath
p 196 / calendar announcement [International Fortean Organization meeting Oct. 17-18] Geoffrey Golson
p 196 / calendar announcement [International Conference on Alternative Energies Dec. 14-16] Geofrey Golson
p 205 / advertisement [The Necronomicon] Necronomicon
p 208 / Cosmic Dangers [asteroid strikes] Patrick Moore
p 212 / advertisement [Autobiography of a Yogi] Self-Realization Fellowship
p 212 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#2 11/81
p 12 / letter [Tesla] Edson Johnson
p 16 / letter [n.d.e.] Debra Shotwell
p 39 / Parent of the Apes [human/ape genetic cross] Barbara Ford
p 44 / Gay Disease [mysterious "decreased resistance"] Judith Hooper
p 80 / Witches [w.] Erica Jong
p 111 / Anti-matter [UFO] Allan Hendry
p 112 / Transsexual Reincarnation [r. as cause of t.] Allan Maurer
p 112 / Global Cryptozoology [International Society of C. established] Douglas Colligan
p 113 / Feminist Hex [witches hex trailside killer] Allan Maurer
p 114 / Magnetic People? [magnetic sense?] Carol Johmann
p 114 / Psychic Better Business Bureau [The Association of P. Practitioners established] Allan Maurer
p 114 / Placebo Horoscopes [prepared and placebo h. equally accurate] Kendrick Frazier
p 124 / advertisement [catalog incl. alt. energy, biofeedback] Edmund Scientific
p 147 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#3 12/81
p 10 / letter [lunar madness] Richard Ornberg
p 45 / Noisy Vegetables [plants makes noises when in need of water] Judith Hooper
p 131 / Anti-Matter [UFO] Jeff Hecht
p 132 / French Flying Saucer [built by Jean-Claude Ladrat] Philip Black
p 133 / ESP Believers [parapsychologists are] Kendrick Frazier
p 133 / Human Combustion [Jack Angel, SHC survivor] Harry Lebelson
p 133 / quote [meat and snake showers in Scientific American, 1877] ?
p 133 / UFO Ports [UFO] Margaret Sachs
p 134 / Russian Sleeptalk [Gene Sutherland speaks r. in s., hounded by parapsychologists] Mark Teich
p 161 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 161 / advertisement [catalog incl. biofeedback] Edmund Scientific

V4#4 1/82
p 10 / letter [mystery ship of 10/81 issue SOLVED #1] Mark Epling
p 10 / letter [mystery ship of 10/81 issue SOLVED #2] Anthony Romain
p 10 / letter [second sighting of mystery ship?] W. Krohn
p 12 / letter [phantom-limb sensations] Donald Eisner
p 12 / letter [goat-unicorn of 10/81 issue explained] Draper Kauffman
p 33 / Near Death [n. d. e.] Judith Hooper
p 35 / Whistling Ears [ears that make noise] Judith Hooper
p 37 / SETI Axed [SETI funding cut] Michael Michaud
p 39 / OM Swat Team [TM team's mere presence stops violent crime] Judith Hooper
p 40 / quote ["Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody] Stanislaw Lem
p 67 / interview [Martin Gardner] Scot Morris
p 89 / UFO Update [UFO] Lee Speigel
p 90 / Mermen and Mermaids [explained] Douglas Colligan
p 90 / quote ["That which is incapable of proof itself is no proof of anything else."] Percy Shelley
p 90 / Voodoo Traffic [Brittish motorists use v. dolls to curse cops] Allan Maurer
p 90 / quote ["We are waiting for the UFOs. We know they exist."] Grahm Parker
p 90 / Dogu Space Suits [a.a.] Madeline Lebwohl
p 91 / Sole on Fire [firewalking] Harry Lebelson
p 91 / Uri Geller, Where Are You? [Uri-bating by Randi and OMNI] ???
p 92 / Nostradamus Interpreted [by Jean de Fontbrune] Mark Teich
p 92 / quote ["An abnormal number of all reported paranormal phenomena appear to have happened to holy idiots, fools or crooks."] C. Snow
p 92 / Remembering Birth ["the fact is we do."] Marc McCutcheon
p 119 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#5 2/81
p 10 / letter [Tesla] Michael Milanovich
p 10 / letter [UFO] Allan Hendry
p 12 / letter [creationism] Les Brown
p 12 / letter [creationism] James Milton
p 12 / letter [creationism] Keith Croes
p 24 / Cheap Talk [modern myths, ala "Paul is dead"] Gary Fine
p 35 / First Earth Battalion [Army goes new age] Michelle Bekey
p 37 / quote ["The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious... "] Albert Einstein
p 38 / Ancient Recordings [in pottery] Allan Maurer
p 58 / Recollections of Death [n.d.e.] Michael Sabom
p 62 / interview [Candace Pert: sex relations hardwired in brain?] Judith Hooper
p 93 / UFO Update [UFO] Jack Thornton & Pamela Weintraub
p 94 / Raging Skeptics [pick on each other] Irving Lieberman
p 94 / King Tut’s Shroud [just like J.C.'s only we have the body too] Sandra Dorr
p 95 / Nutrition for Psychics [psy] Robert Sheaffer
p 95 / Discojet [UFO-like jet by Paul Moller] Margaret Sachs
p 95 / Killer Clowns [k. c.] Pamela Weintraub
p 96 / Modern-Day Voodoo [belief makes it work] Eric Mishara
p 96 / Time Tripping [by Association for Past-Life Research and Therapy] Margaret Sachs
p 96 / China’s Armpit Savants [psychic readings or frauds?] James Randi
p 96 / quote ["Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed form deep nonsense."] Carl Sagan
p 121 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#6 3/81
p 10 / letter [satirizing anti-choice legislation] Audrey Glickman
p 10 / letter [n.d.e.] D. Amaral
p 14 / Yellow Rain [y.r.] Douglas Starr
p 22 / Gay Origins [g. o.] Judith Hooper
p 36 / quote ["There was never an idea started that woke men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank."] Oliver Holmes
p 36 / Cruelty to Monkeys [in the name of science] Sandra Dorr
p 37 / quote ["In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to nature: we are looking for natural conspiracies, for connections among apparently disparate data."] Carl Sagan
p 38 / Loch Ness Monsterlings [czoo] Michael Jeffries
p 40 / quote ["Science has proof without and certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."] Ashley Montague
p 41 / Grass Intelligence [pot studies] Judith Hooper
p 45 / Cool Immortality [life extention] Roy Walford
p 75 / interview [Francis Crick: life on earth was planted by intelligence from beyond] David Rorvik
p 91 / UFO Update [UFO] Jeff Wells
p 92 / Haitian Zombies [zombies] Pablo Fenjues
p 92 / Phantom Animals [animal teleportation] Pamela Weintraub
p 93 / Haunted Personalities [some p. more condusive to h.] Dave McNary
p 94 / Dracula Revisited [tour of Ducharest] Margaret Sachs
p 94 / Demons of Brookfield [inspire multiple murderer Arne Johnson] Peter Rondinone
p 123 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#7 4/82
p 10 / letter [sound in pottery] Robert Mest
p 10 / letter [UFO] Janina Leeds
p 12 / letter [Nostradomus] Everett Bleiler
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] Walter Isenhour
p 12 / letter [UFO] Steven Soter
p 36 / Music [DEVO] Michael Shore
p 51 / quote ["Ignorance is the womb of monsters."] Henry Beecher
p 52 / quote ["The wallpaper with which men of science has covered the world of reality is falling to tatters."] Henry Miller
p 101 / UFO Update [UFO] Peter Rondinone
p 102 / Voices from Beyond [on tape] Allan Maurer
p 102 / Joan of Arc: Genetic Male [j.o.a.:g.m?] Eric Mishara
p 103 / Deadly Dreams [monsters become real] Peter Rondinone
p 103 / Huge UFO [UFO] Katherine Jason
p 103 / quote [UFO] Woody Allen
p 104 / Nuclear Premonitions [n.p.] Peter Rondinone
p 104 / Champlain Monster Meeting [czoo] J. Greenwell
p 104 / ELF-Wave Antidote [extreme low frequency mind control] Eric Mishara
p 115 / advertisement [Autobiography of a Yogi] Self-Realization Fellowship
p 130 / letter [sound in pottery, Seth] Dona MacVicar
p 137 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#8 5/91
p 10 / letter [animal experimentation] Richard Snedeker
p 10 / letter [shroud] Ann Smith
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] Mary Flood
p 12 / response [n.d.e.] Michael Sabom
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] Jerry Stockton
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] William Reynolds
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] Ira Marvin
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] Bill Horne
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] Michael Jackson
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] John Kogut
p 12 / letter [n.d.e.] Anthony Klotz
p 40 / Barley Cure [tribal remedies ahead of science] Sy Montgomery
p 43 / Hypnosis on Trial [h. maybe not reliable] Yvonne Baskin
p 45 / Tunguska and Ozone [t. explosion] Joel Davis
p 111 / UFO Update [UFO] Al Furst
p 112 / Past-Life Skiing [p.l.s.] Margaret Sachs
p 112 / Mummy’s Curse [Tut] Robert Sheaffer
p 112 / Examining Bent Metal [burned by Uri] D. Rogo
p 112 / quote ["Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."] Stendhal
p 113 / The Jerusalem Cover-up [The City of David was really Edinburgh, Scotland] Pamela Weintraub
p 114 / quote ["Men are most apt to believe what they least understand."] Montaigne
p 114 / UFO World Record [UFO] Peter Rondinone
p 114 / Satellite Seances [se. by way of sa.] Rachel Basch
p 137 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 154 / Last Word [psy., para., Uri, Dowsing,] James Randi

V4#9 6/91
p 12 / letter [UFO] Travis Walton
p 12 / letter [humans were planted] Mark Baisley
p 12 / letter [humans were planted] Z. Sitchin
p 12 / letter [increase in gay men caued by favorable female wiring] Robert Hyre
p 14 / letter [gay origins] Nathan Daniels
p 14 / letter [self-contempt is the root of homosexuality] Pamela Goren
p 14 / letter [earthquake prediction] Steven Montgomery
p 14 / letter [firewalking] James Randi
p 36 / Deadly Intercourse [sperm allergy in women] Eric Mishara
p 39 / Biten by Love [psychosomatic arthritis in abused women] Charles Craig
p 41 / quote ["If triangles had a god, he would have three sides."] Clarles de Secondat
p 100 / Creationist Comics [c.ism] Bill Lee
p 109 / UFO Update [UFO] Carol Johmann
p 110 / Jesus Insurance [estate willed to Jesus] Peter Rondinone
p 110 / quote [psy.] Trevor Hall
p 110 / Time Foils ESP [psy.] Dava Sobel
p 110 / quote ["It is curious what unlikelihoods people - particularly scientists - will accept in order to 'save appearances...'"] Martyn Skinner
p 111 / Integraton [alien-inspired technology] Margaret Sachs
p 111 / Loc Ness Worms [czoo] Ivor Smullen
p 111 / quote [para] Trevor Hall
p 112 / Monster on Ice [Frank Hanson's "Big Foot Creature" exposed] Kendrick Frazier
p 112 / quote ["Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."] St. Augustine
p 137 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#10 7/82
p 12 / letter [creation of gays] Ned Flaherty
p 14 / letter [yogis] Melvin Carter
p 14 / letter [yogis] Selene MacKenzie
p 14 / letter [yellow rain] Robert Levi
p 14 / letter [yellow rain] Timothy David
p 14 / letter [yellow rain] Fred Greene
p 35 / Good News for Lab Animals [vivisection] Douglas Starr
p 37 / Keeping Quiet about Earthquakes [predicting e.] Eric Mishara
p 39 / quote ["There are no facts, only interpretations"] Friedrich Nietzche
p 41 / Mystery Lake [unfrozen water near S. Pole] Madeleine Lebwohl
p 41 / Whole-Mind Predictions [use both halves for success] Judith Hooper
p 46 / Butterflies in the Dark [psy] Les Ericson
p 91 / UFO Update [UFO] Pamela Weintraub
p 92 / Bubbling Blood [St. Januarius miracle] Kathrine Jason
p 93 / Ghost Hunt [g. poll -- seen one?] Allan Maurer
p 93 / UFO Counseling [UFO Contact Center] Joel Davis
p 94 / Pyramid Wine [w. made in a p.] Peter Rondinone
p 94 / Hieroglyphic Hoax? [about Jewish exodus] Carol Johnmann
p 123 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#11 8/82
p 10 / letter [psi, czoo, UFO] Tom Pyzdek
p 12 / letter [astrology] Land Fleming
p 20 / Sudden Death [from fright or imagination] Patrick Huyghe
p 36 / Fetus on the Couch [personalities formed in utero] Eric Mishara
p 37 / Talking Computer for Dolphins [t.c.f.d.] Owne Davies
p 39 / Fateful Names [n. determine your future] Dava Sobel
p 91 / UFO Update [UFO] James Oberg
p 92 / Psychic Sleuths [p.s.] Marcello Truzzi
p 92 / American Triangle [Bermuda T. shifts west] Robert Sheaffer
p 93 / UFO Auto Accidents [UFO] Bethany Campbell
p 93 / Aroma Therapy [a. t.] Eric Mishara
p 94 / Suburban Pyramid [James Onan built one] Mark Teich
p 94 / quote ["The unknown always passes for the marvelous."] Tacitus
p 94 / Out-Of-Body Survey [University of Kansas findings] Tom Kovach
p 121 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V4#12 9/82
p 10 / letter [Jerusalem Cover-Up commentary] Robert Stephanos
p 10 / letter [Jerusalem Cover-Up commentary] Ken Turnbull
p 10 / letter [Randi mistake noted] Marcello Truzzi
p 22 / Foresight Saga [precog] David Loye
p 46 / quote ["When you collect the ten wisest men of the world and ask them to find the most stupid thing in existence, they will not be able to find anything stupider than astrology."] David Gilbert
p 47 / quote ["If a minister believes and teaches evolution, he is a stinking skunk."] Billy Sunday
p 53 / OOPArts [out-of-place artifacts] Robert Patton
p 99 / UFO Update [UFO] Bethany Campbell
p 100 / Big Foot Fraud [by Rant Mullens] Douglas Starr
p 100 / Pet Telepathy [psi] Owne Davies
p 101 / Living Neanderthals [crypto-anthropology?] J. Greenwell
p 102 / Messages for the Dead [carried by terminal patients] Eric Mishara
p 102 / Vampire Hall of Fame [v. museum in NY] Herny Packer
p 127 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians

V5#1 10/82
p 12 / letter [Loch Ness Worms commentary] Robert Huffman
p 14 / letter [Creationist Comics commentary] Sharon Lunsford
p 14 / letter [Creationist Comics commentary] Bill Melancon
p 14 / letter [Creationist Comics commentary] Roger Thrasher
p 49 / quote ["Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel."]
Bill Greener
p 52 / Subliminal Diet [s. tapes] Allan Maurer
p 72 / Mind Tripping [altered states lead to health] Judith Hooper
p 108 / advertisement [Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard] St. Martin’s Press
p 112 / Fetal Thought [does it exist?] ???
p 129 / interview [Karl Pribram] Judith Hooper
p 135 / advertisement [The Mastery of Life] The Rosicrucians
p 136 / Psi-Q Test 2 [psi] S. Schwartz and R. Mattei
p 151 / UFO Update [UFO] Alvin Lawson
p 152 / Bigfoot at Walla Walla [czoo] Owen Davies
p 152 / … And on Film [bigfoot, that is] Owen Davies
p 153 / The Alchemist’s Curse [a. really works] Moria Anderson
p 154 / Blond Mummy of Sinkiang [caucasian mummy from 2000 BC China] Douglass Starr
p 154 / Phantom Hitchhiker [para] Mark Teich
p 167 / advertisement [Autobiography of a Yogi] Self-Realization Fellowship
p 190 / Sun Shakes [may disprove Einstein's theory of relativity] Allan Hendry

From the 1906 book The Outbursts of Everett True by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper. With thanks to Barnacle Press.

The Anarchist’s Guide to the BBS
Keith Wade
Port Townsend: Loompanics 1990
8vo paperback 90p

There were two main reference points I used to evaluate this book. First, as an anarchist [1982-1994], did this teach me anything about BBS? And second, as someone with a little knowledge of computers, did this teach me about anarchy? The results were mixed but worth the read to find out.

The Anarchist’s Guide to the BBS is written for the novice to computers, containing several chapters of introduction to terms and procedures that are well written and build on each other nicely. The book centers on computers as telecommunication devices but I learned more about computers in general than I’d known before. In this respect the book is exactly what it claims to be, a guide to the BBS, and does its job well.

But as an anarchist’s guide to the BBS I found it lacking. Like The Anarchist’s Cookbook (which Loompanics dropped from its catalog many years ago as dangerous and misleading), The Anarchist’s Guide to the BBS confuses anarchism with criminality. The reasoning something like this: anarchists oppose government, governments write laws, therefore to break a law is an anarchist act. This reduces anarchism to the loyal opposition of the state, dependent on authority to tell it what not to do rather than a movement that could create an alternative to the state. There is little or nothing in the Guide about breaking into government or corporate computer networks for fact-finding or sabotage purposes, the decentralized nature of BBS communication and its relevance to anarchist theory, or the debate on the role of technology in the anarchist struggle in the future. Not only are these ideas not explored in a book about anarchy and computers but there is no exploration or analysis of anarchism at all. There is plenty of information on use of credit card numbers that aren’t yours and running a prostitution service over your BBS but not even these ideas, which have been debate in the anarchist press for years, have any theory behind them. It is enough to scam the state; no need to use that power to achieve anything other than increased wealth and power for yourself. If I read this book as a computer user with no background in anarchism there would be nothing to contradict the state (amass wealth at the expense of others) nor the state perspective on anarchists (those who amass wealth at the expense of others without going through the proper channels). A change of title to “The Criminal’s Guide to the BBS” would bring the book more in line with its content and improve the ability of the book to be what it claims to be.

(from OVO 9 July 1991)

Wikipedia: Everybody Draw Mohammed Day:

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day was a 2010 protest in support of free speech, specifically in opposition to those who threaten violence against artists who draw representations of Muhammad. It began as a protest against censorship of an American television show, South Park, “201″ by its distributor, Comedy Central, in response to death threats against some of those responsible for the segment. Observance of the day began with a drawing posted on the Internet on April 20, 2010, accompanied by text suggesting that “everybody” create a drawing representing Muhammad, on May 20, 2010, as a protest against efforts to limit freedom of speech.

U.S. cartoonist Molly Norris of Seattle, Washington, created the artwork in reaction to Internet death threats that had been made against cartoonists Trey Parker and Matt Stone for depicting Muhammad in an episode of South Park. Depictions of Muhammad are explicitly forbidden by a few hadith (Islamic texts), though not by the Qur’an. Postings on RevolutionMuslim.com (under the pen name Abu Talha al-Amrikee; later identified as Zachary Adam Chesser) had said that Parker and Stone could wind up like Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was knifed and throat-cut to death by a Muslim extremist, who afterwards pinned a letter to his body with a knife. The individuals running the website later attempted to deny that the postings were actual threats, although they were widely perceived as such.

Norris said that if people draw pictures of Muhammad, Islamic terrorists would not be able to murder them all, and threats to do so would become unrealistic. Within a week, Norris’ idea became popular on Facebook, was supported by numerous bloggers, and generated coverage on the blog websites of major U.S. newspapers.

[...] On July 11, 2010 it was reported that Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki had put Molly Norris on a hitlist. In an English-language Al Qaeda magazine named “Inspire,” Al-Awlaki wrote “The medicine prescribed by the Messenger of Allah is the execution of those involved.” and was quoted as saying “The large number of participants makes it easier for us because there are more targets to choose from in addition to the difficulty of the government offering all of them special protection [...] But even then our campaign should not be limited to only those who are active participants.” FBI officials have reportedly notified Norris warning her they consider it a “very serious threat.” Norris has since changed her name and gone into hiding under advice from the FBI.

You can’t find a comic nerd walking this green earth who is ignorant of and holding no opinion regarding Dr. Frederic Wertham, or the law team of Disney Inc., or the de-emphasis of politics and drug use in film adaptations of Alan Moore’s work. But this comic nerd is significantly more agitated about the fate of Molly Norris. For a cartoon far more tame than the one I drew and posted at the head of this post, she has lost her name, home, livelihood, friends, family and art.  Seattle Weekly: “She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program — except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab.” Score one for Islam, the new comics code authority.

Robert Spencer: The Jihad Against a Seattle Cartoonist

Molly Norris’s cause should be taken up by all free people – not least the President of the United States. Obama could have explained that human beings control their own reactions to things. If Muslims chose yet again to riot and murder because of Terry Jones or Molly Norris, that would be a choice they would be making out of an unlimited array of other choices. Instead, Western authorities have fallen into the Islamic supremacists’ trap and are starting to behave in just the way they want them to: thinking that they must not do certain things, because if they do, there will be violence from Muslims. Yet that violence is in every case solely the responsibility of the perpetrator, not of anyone else.

Obama could have said that the idea that Molly Norris would have to give up her career and live in hiding because of cartoons is unconscionable. He could have told the Islamic world that cartoons depicting Muhammad did not harm Muslims, and that the willingness of some Muslims to commit murder over such depictions was the only thing that made people care to draw Muhammad in the first place.

Obama could also have said that to threaten people with death because of cartoons was destructive to free speech and hence to free societies — and as such, it was something that the U.S. would do everything it could to resist. He could have announced that Molly Norris and others who were threatened for exercising their freedom of speech would be given full round-the-clock protection — and that if violent protests and riots over cartoons broke out in areas where American troops were deployed, those troops would put down those riots and protect the innocent to the fullest possible extent.

Whatever Obama does, I’m on the side of free speech. How about you?

From the 1906 book The Outbursts of Everett True by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper. With thanks to Barnacle Press.

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From the 1906 book The Outbursts of Everett True by A. D. Condo and J. W. Raper. With thanks to Barnacle Press.