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Asked where he got the ideas for his stories Stephen King replied, "My mother would read me FATE magazine. Which was about the paranormal, flying saucers, and all that stuff. ...and I was fascinated." Now you can read The Best of FATE. UFOs and Close Encounters brings you the story of Unidentified Flying Objects through key reports - from the encounter that started it all in 1948 to 21st century sightings worldwide - selected from the magazine's over 700 issues. Kenneth Arnold, the pilot whose 1949 account launched the modern fascination with flying saucers, shares his story. James A. Harder, professor of engineering at the UC Berkely's metallurgical analysis of UFO remains he says proves they are of extraterrestrial origin. Cambridge historian Harold T. Wilkins's survey of 1000 years of UFO sightings. Authentic personal reports of UFOs seen around the world - and even beneath the seas. Utah State University professor Frank B. Salisbury, PhD's meditation on whether science alone is adequate to explain their existence. Renowned UFOlogist Jaques Vallee on possible extradimensional, psychic or spiritual explanations. Geologist Robert M. Schoch, PhD's hypothesis on a connection between UFOs and Lost Civilizations? You will not find any final answers or solutions-they still don't yet exist, contrary to what some people might tell you. But you will find sensible, clear-headed perspectives on the greatest riddle of our time, as seen by those who know the most about it. And it's a good bet that when the solution is found, it will be due in no small part to the efforts of the individuals who have contributed to this book as contributors to the most thought-provoking publication of all time - FATE magazine.Cover: Frankie Hill DesignsSpecial introductory price $8.99 (Amazon only) normally $12.99

AMAZON TOP TEN PARANORMAL AND SUPERNATURAL BESTSELLING SERIES! This book contains 25 true reports of real-life encounters with the paranormal and the supernatural; accounts which are, indeed, stranger than fiction. Drawn from the files of FATE-the magazine Stephen King says gave him many of his "best ideas", and the world's leading publication of the strange and unknown-the testimonials in this series come from a wide variety of people, places and decades. To read this book is to enter the world of ESP, prophetic dreams, magic, ghosts, poltergeists, miraculous healings, the occult, and the supernormal. You may begin reading this classic collection as a skeptic, but we are sure you will be more of a believer by the time you finish. Here are just a few of the fascinating, thought-provoking reports and personal accounts you will find in this fantastic-but-true book, personally selected by the editors of FATE Magazine: Eye-witness to a Miracle Healing We Heard Voices from the Dead The Exorcist Fought Five Demons for One Woman's Soul The Navy Blimp Returned to Earth-Minus its Crew The Witches' Salve The Little Man Who Was Sometimes There ESP Demonstrated in Cross-Country Test Ghost Soldier in Their Attic Two Watches Stopped at the Moment of Death The Poltergeist That Could Write The World's Strangest True Encounters is an extraordinary collection of extraordinary tales by those who have encountered the inexplicable, and of first-hand investigations by FATE's writers into reports of the extraordinary and unexplained. Wikipedia calls FATE "the longest-running magazine devoted to the paranormal. ...it has published expert opinions and personal experiences relating to UFOs, psychic abilities, ghosts and hauntings, cryptozoology, alternative medicine, divination methods, belief in the survival of personality after death, Fortean phenomena, predictive dreams, mental telepathy, archaeology, warnings of death, and other paranormal topics." FATE hopes you enjoy the books in FATE's Library of the Paranormal and the Unknown.

STARTLING BUT TRUE ARE THE MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA THAT EXIST SOMEWHERE - BEYOND THE STRANGE!"FATE is about UFOs, the paranormal, all that stuff. I find it fascinating!" -Stephen King.From FATE's 6 million copy selling Library of the Paranormal and the Unknown...In this bestselling book compiled by the editors of FATE magazine you will read amazing true accounts of the mysteries of ESP, dreams, ghosts, the occult, UFOs, strange science, witchcraft - and other fascinating phenomena in the world of the supernatural and the unexplained.You'll discover the secrets of these curious events - and the remarkable stories of the people experience them in this gripping record of happenings that lie ... beyond the strange!"Amazing. I LOVE this kind of stuff, and ate it up. It's full of some really great stories, many of which will shock you and creep you out. Recommended." -Victoria Haugen, Goodreads

"A fairly good time capsule of sf starting to become a genre of its own, and "Amazing Stories" in particular., for the pulp fiction fan, this will be an interesting and fun read And all of 1926's covers are reprinted on this anthology's back cover." -Amazon review. 1940 was an important year for Amazing Stories-and for its new editor, Raymond A. Palmer. For Palmer it was the culmination of his dream to create a stable of new science fiction writers for Amazing, the way John W. Campbell Jr. had done two years earlier with such spectacular success at Astounding Stories. Palmer gathered Don Wilcox, Robert Moore Williams, the highly underrated Rog Phillips, David Wright O'Brien, David Vern Reed (of Batman fame), Chester. S. Geier, the Livingston brothers (Herbert and Berkeley), Leroy Yerxa, Frances Deegan, Richard S. Shaver, and others quite popular then but of lesser fame today. He also opened his pages to anything such important authors as Ray Bradbury, Nelson S. Bond, Eando Binder, and Robert Bloch cared to write, 1940 was the year it all came together for Ray Palmer. From then on Amazing Stories' readership and circulation would continue to grow, even through and after the war, in a triumphal arc. The stories reprinted here, we believe are among the most outstanding Palmer published in Amazing during 1940. Guiding our selections are what we feel are three key signifiers of quality: 1) reader reaction as reflected in the magazine's letter columns, 2) a story having been deemed worthy of reprint by the field's most able anthologists, and 3) our own personal reading of all twelve issues published that year. The gem of the year, a novelette which still enjoys classic status today, was undoubtedly "The Voyage that Lasted 600 Years," the first story ever set on board a ship making a generations-long voyage to a distant star. Once again Amazing was in the lead with a cornerstone sf idea that remains a vital part of the field to this day (beating out Robert A. Heinlein's "Universe," which is often misremembered as the first use of a generation starship, by a full year). Also included are Truth Is A Plague David Wright O'Brien The Living Mist Ralph Milne Farley Paul Revere And The Time Machine A. W. Bernal Monster Out Of Space Malcolm Jameson The Day Time Stopped Moving Ed Earl Repp (Writing As Bradner Buckner) The Mathematical Kid Ross Rocklynne The Strange Voyage Of Dr. Penwing Richard O. Lewis The Three Wise Men Of Space Donald Bern Sons Of The Deluge (complete novel)Nelson S. Bond This special 1940 Retro-Hugo edition of The Best of Amazing Stories is not intended to tell World Science Fiction Convention members who or what to vote for (or not to vote for). At the same time it is not possible for most readers to obtain copies of all the science fiction stories and novels published during 1940 or even those classics that might be ranked among the best. Unfortunately, many of the latter are not in print, and those that are are scattered widely among many different anthologies and not easy to assemble. We offer this present book in the hope that it may help contemporary readers become more informed about, at least, some of the better science fiction of the year 1940. Contains a special Introduction and survey of the best stories published in every magazine during the year.

1931 saw the U.S. and the rest of the world sunk low, despairing in the depths of the Great Depression. But there was rejoicing at Amazing Stories because all and all, story for story, 1931 was Amazing's best year ever. Among them, the now classic works we have chosen for this anthology: "Prima Donna 1980," a dazzling story of art, ambition, tragedy, business, television, and song, filled with very human characters, that inevitably reminds one of C.L. Moore's "No Woman Born." Written by Bernard Brown, a motion picture sound technician, Bleiler rates "Prima Donna 1980," as "one of the best stories" in the history of Amazing. Patrick Dutton's masterpiece of style, "The Beautiful Bacillus," a unique work straddling the line between humor and tragedy. Bleiler pronounced Dutton's story beautifully written in "a complex, tightly organized prose, handled with considerable grace and elegance"..."subtler than Lovecraft" and "certainly worth rereading, [it is] one of the few stories in early Amazing that deserved to be preserved." (but ironically it has never been reprinted until now). A. Hyatt Verrill's "The Exterminator," an O'Henryish short story which anthologist and critic Sam Moskowitz reports "immediately became one of the most popular stories of that length in the history of the magazine." One of David H. Keller MD's top-notcher satires that still remains relevant today, "Service First," an acid-tinged solution to rising rents (a problem even then), an aerial mobile home that only came down for refueling. "The Incredible Formula" by Paul Ernst, a tale of the chemically resurrected dead replacing workers in plants and fields across the U. S., also aspired to something more than the mere unfolding of a new scientific discovery, with its carefully crafted economic subtheme and with an "unusually cynical, unexpected end (Bleiler)." Raymond Z. Gallun's "The Lunar Chrysalis," about an intelligent mollusk civilization on the moon, a fleet of spaceships aimed at the Earth, a desperate attempt by two explorers to escape and warn the home world, and a surprise ending few readers of the time could have anticipated-"nicely told" writes Bleiler. Paul Bolton's "The Time Hoaxers," about which little can be said without giving too much away, except that nothing is what it seems at first or second glance, and the truth is only revealed in a final coda. Finally, Murray Leinster, who had been writing science fiction for more than a decade (and under his real name, Will F. Jenkins, had been selling memetic fiction to slicks like The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's, where he routinely appeared next to Pulitzer Prize winners), contributes "The Power Planet," a story which reached heights that would rarely (if ever) be reached again until Campbell assumed the helm at Astounding, and combined politics with "a surprisingly good method for gathering solar power in orbit, then transferring it to Earth" (Technovelgy.com), plus a sophisticated sex triangle integral to the plot, "strength of characterization, and accuracy of prediction that stand head and shoulders above other" stories (Wollheim). As with the earlier volumes in the series we have included all the original accompanying illustrations for each story we have selected, as well as the original magazine blurbs.). Amazing Stories 1931 - it was a very good year, and we think, helped us create a very good anthology.

Amazon Top 10 in Paranormal & Supernatural!Weird Mysteries That Defy the Laws of Science. Do Their Answers Lie In The Unknown World Beyond Our Senses? FATE's Strange series sold over 2,000,000 copies in the 70s & 80s. Now new audiences are making it a leading title on Amazon Paranormal."FATE is about UFOs, the paranormal, all that stuff. I find it fascinating!" says Stephen King. Now YOU can read the best from its sixty-plus years and 700 issues.The fantastic-but-true accounts in this collection happened to real people who were average in every way but one. They had an experience that went beyond the normal and were drawn into the incredible world of the paranormal! Prophetic DreamsGhostsSpiritual HealingsUFOsPsychic PowersWitchcraftHauntingsPoltergeistsSéancesFire WalkingAngelsCursesAstral TravelWhat are the secrets of these phenomena? Will science ever understand the world beyond our senses? You'll find the startling answers in this exciting collection of authenticated articles from the pages of FATE-America's most famous, most widely read magazine dealing with the incredible world of the psychic, paranormal and the occult.An extraordinary book The World's Strangest True Mysteries is filled with accounts of extraordinary people and occurrences for which the best minds of science can offer little or no explanation."FATE is the best publication of its kind - ever!" -Brad SteigerDon't miss The Best of FATE: The World's Strangest True Stories or The Best of FATE UFOs and Close Encounters.

Amazon Top 10 Series in Paranormal & Supernatural!"FATE is about UFOs, the paranormal, all that stuff. I find it fascinating!" says Stephen King. From the startling pages of FATE, the world's leading magazine of the paranormal and unexplained, come these reports and personal accounts of encounters with the psychic, the supernatural and the unexplained. Here is a book guaranteed to baffle and entertain you for a long time to come.Every day, around the globe, average people step out of the world they know into the Unknown. They meet with ghosts, poltergeists, prophetic dreams, miraculous healings, psychic phenomenon, magic, and much much more. In this extraordinary collection, you will share with them the mysteries that lie beyond scientific understanding: A poltergeist terrorizes a remote Islandic farm, its owners and visitorsA young woman dies-and wills herself back into lifeA group of investigators record the voices of spirits from a realm beyond our Earthly planeA woman waits 16 years to meet and marry a man whose identity she doesn't know-because she had dreamed of his handwritingA haunted house \throws intruders down the stairs - and worse.A housewife steps backward in time to witness a ghostly reenactment of tragedyA floating cross of gold leads a father through the night to save his daughter from drowningA four-year-old remembers-and confirms-details of his previous life as a family man in another villageA major newspaper syndicate covers the night UFOs unleash fiendish forces over Warminister, EnglandOver 2,000,000 copies of FATE's "Strange" series were sold in the 1970s-80s. Peek inside and find out why. But be warned. When you have finished you may never look at the normal workaday world the same!

CLASSIC 6,000,000+ COPY BESTSELLING SERIESAmazon Top 10 in Paranormal & Supernatural!"FATE magazine is fascinating." -Steven KingThe world is not what we think it is.The individuals whose experiences you are about to read know that only too well, since nothing in their lives had prepared them for their encounters with things that are not supposed to happen - but did! Events like these remain hidden because those they happen to are afraid to speak out of a natural reluctance to have their sincerity or sanity questioned. Societies define their own realities and those who challenge them do so at their own peril. The moral seems to be that where these kinds of events are concerned, ignorance is the best policy.Ignorance, of course, will not stop people from having strange, inexplicable experiences. Mysterious stuff will continue to fall out of the sky. People will continue to have bizarre UFO encounters. Little men, monsters, talking mongooses and invisible presences won't stop their determined trespassing into our reality.While most of the world turns a deaf ear to these dimensions of experience, FATE has been listening. And a great number of people have shared their stories with FATE.You are about to read the strangest of them, the reports that represent the greatest challenge to science, reason and understanding. What you will find here, in The World's Strangest True Stories, is nothing less than a full, unobstructed view of these other realities, tantalizing glimpses of things that don't belong here, of worlds not our own...