Entrance
covers of Vols 1-4 of Fortean Research
(© Fortean Occasions/John Brown
Publishing – reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
academic/evaluation functions solely)
I just lately obtained an enquiry from
Fb follower Mike Gown, asking if I knew of wherever on-line that contained
a whole listing of contents for every of the seven revealed volumes of Fortean Research – the scholarly journal
revealed annually-ish from 1994 to 2001 inclusive by John Brown Publishing of
London for the long-running month-to-month British journal Fortean Occasions, which is famously dedicated to all issues of a
mysterious, inexplicable, and really Fortean nature. After spending a while
checking on-line, I used to be very shocked to find that such listings have been
certainly conspicuous solely by their obvious absence there.
Having been lucky sufficient to
contribute to just about each Fortean
Research quantity an article of my very own (every of which I’ve subsequently expanded,
up to date, and included as a chapter in one in every of my books), I am very conversant in
this journal’s contents and their excellent scholarly benefit, collectively
constituting a really sizeable corpus of in-depth, extensively-researched contributions too prolonged and specialised for
publication in Fortean Occasions, thus
explaining why Fortean Research was
established. It is an ideal pity that it ceased publication after simply seven
volumes, however at the least many copies of every of those nonetheless exist, providing an
authoritative, highly-informative, fascinating learn for everybody all in favour of
Fortean phenomena.
Consequently, as a response each to
Mike’s enquiry and to what I really feel to be a necessity that the contents of Fortean Research ought to, very deservedly,
be delivered to the widespread consideration of on-line readers, I’m presenting
herewith a sequence of scans of the entrance cowl and, on the again cowl, the listing
of contents for every Fortean Research
quantity from my very own library.
NB – Please observe that Vol. 1 does include
an article of mine, ‘A Belfy of Crypto-Bats’, positioned straight after Michel
Raynal’s big octopus article, however for some unexplained motive it was omitted
from the listing of contents.
Fortean Research, Quantity 1, 1994 – click on to increase for studying functions (© Fortean Occasions/John Brown Publishing –
reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
academic/evaluation functions solely)
Fortean Research, Quantity 2, 1995 – click on to increase for studying functions (© Fortean Occasions/John Brown Publishing –
reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
academic/evaluation functions solely)
Fortean Research, Quantity 3, 1996 – click on to increase for studying functions (© Fortean Occasions/John Brown Publishing –
reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
academic/evaluation functions solely)
Fortean Research, Quantity 4, 1998 [for 1997] – click on to increase for studying
functions (© Fortean Occasions/John Brown
Publishing – reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
academic/evaluation functions solely)
Fortean Research, Quantity 5, 1998 – click on to increase for studying functions (© Fortean Occasions/John Brown Publishing –
reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
academic/evaluation functions solely)
Fortean Research, Quantity 6, 1999 – click on to increase for studying functions (© Fortean Occasions/John Brown Publishing –
reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
academic/evaluation functions solely)
Fortean Research, Quantity 7, 2001 – click on to increase for studying functions (© Fortean Occasions/John Brown Publishing –
reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
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Distinctive pressures of labor meant that
I used to be unable to contribute an article to Vol. 6, whereas the article on winged
cats that I used to be planning for Vol. 7 proved so arduous when it comes to size and
required analysis that I could not full it in time to fulfill its publication
deadline (it lastly appeared virtually a decade later, in my e-book Dr Shuker’s Casebook). Nonetheless, I
did nonetheless contribute to Vol. 7, inasmuch as I used to be nominated as a reviewer by
its editors to judge Darren Naish’s sea serpent article in manuscript type and
provide my opinion as as to if it ought to be revealed in Fortean Research. After studying it, I said that it ought to be, so
it was.
Second-hand copies of Fortean Research nonetheless seem on the market fairly
regularly on on-line public sale and bookstore websites, however such listings hardly ever
present full particulars of those publications’ contents. So I hope that this
current ShukerNature publish can be of profit to readers who’re pondering of
buying any Fortean Research volumes
however till now have been deterred from doing so by being unsure of what they
include.
I want to thank most sincerely my
longstanding good friend and fellow cryptozoology fanatic Mike Playfair for very
kindly gifting me his spare copy of Fortean
Research Vol. 7 after studying that this was the one quantity that I hadn’t
been capable of observe down.
I additionally want to pay tribute to the reminiscence
of the late Steve Moore, who edited all however that closing, seventh quantity, for encouraging
me to contribute to Fortean Research
and in addition for being one other longstanding good friend of mine inside the Fortean neighborhood.
Entrance
covers of Vols 5-7 of Fortean Research
(© Fortean Occasions/John Brown
Publishing – reproduced right here on a strictly non-commercial Truthful Use foundation for
academic/evaluation functions solely)