ARCHIVAL UPDATES: STRANGE POWERS OF THE MIND & STRANGE POWERS OF E.S.P.

It's a double dose of psychic flimflam from the gruesome twosome of Warren Smith and Brad Steiger! Both Strange Powers of the Mind and Strange Powers of E.S.P. are now available to read and download at archive dot org. This marks the digital debut for both titles, chock full of midcentury parapsychology, psychic predictions, and that old reliable maybe-fiction:

Original reviews are here and here, from way back in 2022.

 

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: THE U.F.O. REPORT & WHY ARE THEY WATCHING US?

Two vintage UFO texts from 1967 by Irving A. Greenfield are now available to read and download: The U.F.O. Report and Why Are They Watching Us? (as Allen Louis Erskine) from Lancer Books and Tower Books, respectively. In both texts Greenfield is hot for the Northeast Blackout of '65 being down to UFO shenanigans.

Original reviews are here and here.

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: WARREN SMITH'S AUTHENTIC DICTIONARY OF CB

Breaker, breaker! Warren Smith's Authentic Dictionary of CB is now available to read and download at archive dot org! This marks the title's digital debut.

Get hip to all the trucker lingo:

Study up on the rules and regs:

And don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!

Courtesy Award Books, 1976.

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: BEYOND BELIEF

Stefan Elg's Fortean collection Beyond Belief is now available to read and download at archive dot org! This marks the title's digital debut.

Courtesy Tower Books, 1970 (original pub. 1967).

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: ESP AND PSYCHIC POWER

Steven Tyler's ESP and Psychic Power is now available to read and download at archive dot org! This marks this title's digital debut and places it alongside Tyler's UFO reader Are the Invaders Coming?

After the main event, Tower Books includes their usual great spread of ads for other intriguing reads across various genres:

Courtesy Tower Books, 1970.

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: ARE THE INVADERS COMING?

Steven Tyler's hopeful-but-skeptical UFO text Are the Invaders Coming? is now available to read and download at archive dot org! Whither our man of mystery? He wrote one more book on the paranormal and then disappeared into the unknown ...

Courtesy Tower Books, 1968.

ARCHIVAL UPDATES: OUT OF THIS WORLD

As our inaugural entry for 2026, John Macklin's classic Forteana collection Out of This World is now available to read and download at archive dot org! Here's a teaser chapter on "The Maltese Monster!"

Macklin was a bit of a mystery himself, as this article by cryptozoologist Karl Shuker attests: Loch Watten's Missing Monster - Whatever Happened to Wattie? 

Shuker attempts to fact check a random lake monster from a book by Peter Haining and falls down a rat hole of fabricated monsters and pseudonymous Fortean recycling which leads to Macklin! The saga continues in a series of updates to the article:

UPDATE #4
On 8 May 2010, I received a fourth response to my enquiry for Wattie information. This time it was a highly illuminating email from none other than [Fortean Time’s] own Paul Sieveking, who informed me that John Macklin was indeed a pseudonym – but not of Peter Haining! Instead, it was one of many pen-names used by another author of popular-format writings on mysteries – Tony James. The plot thickens! So did Tony James originate the storyline for the Wattie tale, or is there an even earlier version out there somewhere that he had read? If anyone has current contact information for James, I’d like to hear from you!

This twisting lake monster mystery is a suitable end to the Year of the Snake, and Macklin's Out of This World is a suitable reminder of where we've come from on the blog. Here's to more, worse, and better in the new year!

Courtesy Ace Books, 1972.