This article on Xavier Forneret, “the Unknown Romantic,” appeared in the third issue of Strange Attractor Journal (2006), edited by Mark Pilkington. I translated two of Forneret’s transcriptions of his dreams, for which Betsy Heistand provided illustrations. Here’s the first page:

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These are pinbacks; let me know if you want one.

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“Let’s Ask Skinner” ran in Crimewave USA, edited by Mark Maynard and Linette Lao, from 1996 to 2003. It usually included both accurate and inaccurate misinformation, plugs for my other projects, toilet humor, and mockery of organized skeptics and the Grateful Dead — the last not from any animus on my part, but simply to […]

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Nobody had really done much research into Tiffany Thayer, the founder of the original Fortean Society, and an entertaining character in his own right. So, I did; and wrote an article on him for the special 200th issue of the Fortean Times, in 2005. I read Thayer’s books, dug up photos and reviews of him, […]

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On the occasion of Jim Steinmeyer’s biography of Charles Fort, I contributed an article to Fate on Fort’s books: his style, models, and reception. Among other things, I pointed out his Pyrrhonist and Bohemian tendencies; and compared his comic and speculative use of science with Jarry’s ‘pataphysics. Here’s the first page.  

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Having long been a fan of both Richard Shaver and Fate magazine, I was happy to play a part in putting him on the cover. My article for this issue, “What’s This?  A Shaver Revival?” can be found here. Or, to be more precise, the beginning of the article: you have to buy the issue […]

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Back in 1981, while touring in Florence, I picked up a facsimile copy of this peculiar alchemical work. I was fascinated, and started a translation. Then, many years and moves later, I found my notes, and realized that I should either discard it or finish it. So, I Googled Nazari; and found that the book […]

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