Fortean Words

"Let me take you down, coz were going..." to a place that you may think you know quite well but the city of Liverpool is a far stranger place then any of you could imagine. Lee Walker is a paranormal...

In the modern era, the narrative of Robin Hood's death is increasingly one of the least familiar aspects of the outlaw's legend. Whilst the icon of Robin himself still shines brightly in the psyche...

Introduction, by Brian Allan In the course of researching material for this book I was confronted with a multitude of almost unbelievable and differing nuances of opinion and belief when dealing with...

"Fortean authors are a rare and vanishing breed. They often write about a wide range of peculiar and arcane subjects, and in 2010 Fortean Words started a series of books anthologising those writers...

Dr Karl Shuker has long been world-renowned for his numerous cryptozoological books, articles, and ShukerNature blog posts, but in 2009 his writings took a new and very unexpected,...

Police officers are widely regarded as amongst the most highly credible of eyewitnesses. And yet here they risk professional ridicule by revealing their otherworldly encounters with things that...

Human heads have an enduring fascination. Believed to be Celtic, the carved Hexham Heads have cast a spell over all who have come into contact with them. Others have made examples in their image and...

"Fortean authors are a rare and vanishing breed. They often write about a wide range of peculiar and arcane subjects, and in 2010 Fortean Words started a series of books anthologising those writers...

This book could best be described as a series of reflections and observations, a distillation if you like, on the nature of, and relationship between, the occult as we encounter it in our daily lives...

Few people have not heard of the Holy Grail, even if they have only a vague idea of what it is. The very term Grail has become so commonly used that it is now employed as a general term for anything...

This book is as important as a piece of socio-cultural documentation as it is an endearing slice of humanity. The Spiritual Baptist faith is a syncretic Afro-American religion which combines elements...

In 1958 Gavin Gibbons wrote a children's science-fiction novel By Space Ship to the Moon, which featured a UFO landing on Moel Sych in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales. Sixteen years later, in a...

UFO Warminster: Cradle of ContactAuthor: Kevin GoodmanPublisher: Fortean WordsPublication Date: Jun 27, 2012Number of Pages: 178 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 190572392XISBN-13:...

At its height, the Saxon kingdom of Wessex sprawled across Southern England, encompassing Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset and parts of Devon and Berkshire. Even before the Saxons arrived the...

Giants, ghouls, haunted graveyards, monsters, dragons, faeries, and alien big cats. These things are generally described as being part of the 'paranormal', but they have been around for a very long...