Random encounters with the unusual
Andrew May's Forteana Blog, focusing on the weirder fringes of history (and other old-fashioned stuff)
As I wrote on my other blog when the illustrated edition was published earlier this year, I had no real involvement in creating it, beyond updating the text in a few places and providing words for a few of the image captions. My real contribution was in writing the original paperback book, which I covered in earlier posts while I was writing it and after it was published . But since then, the book has acquired something of a life of its own - more so than any of my other books, anyway. The Goodreads site cu
There's another connection between FT and video games that I'm aware of, which I mentioned on my other blog in May 2017, shortly after this one went into hiatus. It's a cameo appearance by a (sadly fictitious) magazine called Freaky Times , in the game Barrow Hill: The Dark Path by my favourite team of adventure game developers, Matt Clark and Jonathan Boakes. In case the magazine's oddly familiar cover design isn't enough of a giveaway, Jonathan himself once described it as "a little nod to the Fortean Tim
Random encounters with the unusual