Collected features and reviews from the pages of Fortean Times magazine…

The Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Volume 6 (Issue 472)
“Never trust anybody wearing a Breton shirt…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 469)
Thoughts on work by Richard Daniels & Melody Phelan-Clark, Foster Neville, NIMF, Keith Seatman, Nilson, EL Heath, The Balloonist, Jim Noir and Tom Oyston

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 466)
Thoughts on work by Simon Avery, Chimehours, Rupert Hine, Sister Irene O’Connor, Drew Mulholland, Maps and Justin Hopper

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 463)
Thoughts on work by Pneumatic Tubes, David Boulter, Swansither, The Sunny Smiles Three, Me Lost Me, Morgan Szymanski and Tommy Perman, Deadman’s Ghost, Eric Wetherell and Berlin Zebra

Will Maclean, Joel Morris and Broken Veil (Issue 460)
“Somebody said to me that it’s like Detectorists meets The X Files. And as far as I’m concerned, there is no higher praise…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 459)
Thoughts on work by Bhajan Bhoy, Superhuman, The All Golden, Synthetic Villains, Field Lines Cartographer, The Psychic Circle, Klaus Morlock and The Balloonist

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 456)
Thoughts on work by Moon Wiring Club, 30 Door Key, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Felines Of The Night, Alison O’Donnell and Gayle Brogan, Micro Moon, Bonfire Hill, British Stereo Collective and Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project

Magic Realms: The Art Of Fighting Fantasy (Issue 454)
“It’s the tongue you notice first…”

The Hexham Heads, Nationwide and Greg McKevitt (Issue 453)
“It went from shots of Celtic stone heads to footage of Hadrian’s Wall with weird, severed heads on stakes…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 453)
Thoughts on work by David A Jaycock, Xqui and Dogs Versus Shadows, Carlisle City Council, Faithful Johannes and Neocia, Frances Castle, Rupert Lally, Kayla Painter, Cate Brooks and Listen Through The Brown Window

Scrobbled! Opening The Box of Delights (Issue 452)
“I genuinely think it’s the BBC’s greatest-ever endeavour…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 450)
Thoughts on work by Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate, Brian Duffy, Broadcast, The Soundcarriers,  Tristwch Y Fenywod, The Sheffield Paranormal Research Group, Mike Fowler and Keith Seatman

Hare Today: The Folklore Of Starve Acre (Issue 449)
“They’re mysterious animals: big, muscular, sinewy, long-legged weird things that you don’t see very often…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 447)
Thoughts on work by Adam S Leslie, Orbury Common, Shropshire Number Stations, Scholars Of The Peak, Grey Malkin & Fogroom, British Stereo Collective, The Electric Flea Show and The Excavation Of Hob’s Barrow

The Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Volume 5 (Issue 446)
“Exposing school-age children to a healthy dose of the avant-garde was seen almost as a matter of civic duty…”

On The Trail Of The Lirpa Loof (Issue 443)
“Do you suppose that is what they call the Abominable Snowman?”
Dame Esther Rantzen, Bill Buckley, Martin O’Collins, Dr John Knight and Dr Brian Bertram look back on the extraordinary 1984 April Fool’s prank pulled off by BBC magazine show That’s Life.

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 443)
Thoughts on work by The Night Monitor, Cult Of Wedge, Kitchen Cynics & Grey Malkin, Letters From Mouse, Alexander R Cargill Esq, British Stereo Collective, Pye Corner Audio and Concretism

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 439)
Thoughts on work by Hidden Britain Tapes, Dr Peter Falconer, D Rothon, Vic Mars, Portland Vows, Pennycross Coven, Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange, Elizabeth Parker, Gazelle Twin, British Ligoncuss, Graham Vasey and A Year In The Country

Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop (Issue 436)
“Imagine a parallel universe where every British High Street boasts its own Quasigamic Expedition shop…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 435)
Thoughts on work by Martyn Stonehouse, MeLostMe, The Twelve Hour Foundation, Ardala, Sound Effects Of Death And Horror, Paul Childs, Ben Holton and Belbury Poly

Tome Sweet Tome: The Return of Garth Marenghi (Issue 433)
“I can distinctly recall, when my first book was published, tipping an entire shelf of Dennis Wheatley novels onto the floor of my local WHSmiths…”  

The Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Volume 4 (Issue 432)
“A collection that becomes slowly subsumed by a sense of deliciously vintage strangeness…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 432)
Thoughts on work by Tyneham House, Josephine Foster, Penelope Trappes, Cate Brooks, Mombi Yuleman, Kyron and the Buried Treasure label

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 429)
Thoughts on work by Ryan Shirlow, David Colohan, The Night Monitor, Epic45, Gilroy Mere, Earstone, Belbury Poly, Eric Zann and Suzy Mangion… and a tribute to the late Marcus H

Mark Jenkin, Enys Men and The Merry Maidens (Issue 427)
“I didn’t want to make a Folk Horror film in the usual tradition, picking away at the surface of Merrie Old England. I wanted that surface to have never existed…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 426)
Thoughts on work by Josh Merritt, Alan Gubby, The Balloonist, Jonathan Sharp, Burd Ellen, Frogman, Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Howlround, Famished For Blonds, Modified Toy Orchestra, Belbury Poly, The Focus Group, The Advisory Circle and Sean Reynard

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 423)
Thoughts on work by Sedna Chronicles, Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus, Andy Fosberry, Hawksmoor, The Hardy Tree, Harold Turgis, Wesley Wakefield, David Jaycock & Andrew Burge, Concretism and Occultaria of Albion

Never Mind The Warlocks: Fighting Fantasy at 40 (Issue 422)
“Thinking you were in Darkwood Forest or Port Blacksand? You’re not an isolated case…”

Waiting For You: A Detectorists Zine (Issue 421)
“Filled with simple pleasures, gleeful diversions and the occasional fleeting spectre…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 419)
Thoughts on work by Mombi Yuleman, Kemper Norton, Orbury Common, Meadowsilver, The Sound Of Science, The Pattern Forms and Aux Luna

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 416)
Thoughts on work by Modern Aviation (Look To Imber), VÄLVĒ, Keith Seatman, The British Stereo Collective, Town & County, Cafe Kaput, The Night Monitor, Blyth Electricity Board and Colossive Press

Nigel Planer: Bourne To Run (Issue 416)
“If you travel in time, but you’re on a ladder that didn’t exist back then… you fall…”

The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 413)
Thoughts on work by One Key Magic, Frances Castles, Black Channels, Mordant Music, Stealing Sheep and the Radiophonic Workshop, Library Of The Occult, Kyron, Large Plants, Pye Corner Audio, Trunk Records, Buried Treasure and Unsettling Landscapes

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 410)
Thoughts on work by British Cryptids, Dechmont Woods, A Farewell To Hexes, A Year In The Country, Bredbeddle, Concretism, Monsieur Pompier’s Travelling Freakshow and ToiToiToi.

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 407)
Thoughts on work by Drew Mulholland, Everyday Dust, Soiled, Harold Turgis, D Rothon, Kemper Norton, Repeated Viewing, The Unseen and Sharron Kraus

Trompe Le Monde – The Return of Erwin Saunders (Issue 407)
“Why are you asking me all these weird questions?” World Exclusive: An interview (of sorts) with intrepid pixie-hunter Erwin Saunders…

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 404)
Thoughts on work by The Heartwood Institute, Hawksmoor, Dream Division, The Eccentronic Research Council, The Hardy Tree, Michael Tanner and Kerrie Robinson, Beautify Junkyards and Belbury Poly, Firefay, Personal Bandana, Spurious Transients, The Occultaria of Albion and Erwin Saunders

Casting The Runes: Dave and Toni Arthur’s Hearken To The Witches Rune (Issue 403)
“I’ve had a lot of strange experiences. A lot of stuff that could be construed as magic…” Dave and Toni Arthur tell the extraordinary story behind their 1971 occult-folk classic.

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 400)
Thoughts on work by Richard Littler, Concretism, The Twelve Hour Foundation, Scarred For Life, Field Lines Cartographer, Dogs Versus Shadows, The Left Outsides, Alison Cotton, The Night Monitor, Usborne Books, BFI, Nancy Gaffield and the Drift, David Boulter, The Sodality of the Shadows, Holy Moloch and Will Maclean

The Psychedelic Shift (Issue 399)
“When did the depiction of those with an interest in the ‘unexplained’ shift in popular culture?”

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 398)
Thoughts on work by Belbury Poly, Gilroy Mere, Field Lines Cartographer and Polypores

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 395)
Thoughts on The Best of COI: Five Decades of Public Information Films

Erwin Saunders: Pixie Hunter (Issue 395)
“An extravagantly bearded man in a camouflage hat is nervously explaining his hobby of tracking and cataloguing ‘wilderness folk’, in particular the ‘Morsu Pixies’…”

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 393)
Thoughts on work by Jon Brooks, Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Adam Scovell, Drew Mulholland, R.B Russell, Hattie Cooke

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 391)
Thoughts on work by Keith Seatman, Douglass E Powell, Plone, Panamint Manse, Capac

One Man’s Trash: The Ephemeral Obsessions of John Townsend (Issue 390)
“‘He was collecting on a different level,’ says Jonny Trunk. ‘Relentless. Absolutely relentless. It’s so hardcore’…”

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 389)
Thoughts on work by Paul Weller, Repeated Viewing, Rupert Lally, Jonny Trunk

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 387)
Thoughts on work by Richard Littler, Concretism, The Soulless Party, VA (Scarred For Life), Jon Brooks, Hattie Cooke, The Central Office of Information

Where Ghosts Gather (Issue 385)
“In 1977, Usborne published World of the Unknown: Ghosts, the children’s book that inspired a generation of junior Forteans…”

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 385)
Thoughts on work by Alison Cotton, Vic Mars, Neil Scrivin, Drew Mulholland

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 383)
Thoughts on work by Sean Reynard, Quentin Smirhes, Handspan, Polypores, Oliver Cherer, Robin Saville, Folk Horror Revival

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 381)
Thoughts on work by Jonathan Sharp, Visage Pale, The Home Current, A Year In The Country, Mark Brend

The Haunted Generation in the Fortean Times (Issue 379)
Thoughts on work by Frances Castle, Drew Mulholland, Delia Derbyshire, The Delaware Road, Justin Hopper, Sharron Krauss, Belbury Poly, Richard Littler

The Haunted Generation (Issue 354)
“There are four of them, blank-faced children in old-fashioned pinafores, standing at the end of the street, staring back at me. They could be Edwardian; it’s difficult to tell. Time is standing still here…” The original Haunted Generation feature.

The Wizard of the Edge (Issue 336)
“As The Weirdstone of Brisingamen plunges swiftly into a murky world of lost magic, dark forces and twisted folklore, I gradually begin to realise that I have found my Favourite Writer In The World…”

Hobnobbing With The Hobs (Issue 330)
“My favourite moorland walks were filled with their own breed of dwarf-like, mischievous, hairy-footed men…”