Fate Magazine - True Stories of the Strange and The Unknown / August, 1956. New Orleans Devil Worship: Ghosts; Spiritualism; Animal ESP; strange coincidences, Dead Sea Scrolls; Malayan Ape-Men (Sasquatch?); Transient Lunar Phenomena; Koreshan Unity sect by Fuller, Mary (Editor); George M. Kelley; Bertha Newhoff; Fred Archer; John Harden; Guy Hedlund; Frank M. Mitchell Adams; Paul Steiner; Alson J. Smith; John Carlova; Donald Keyhoe; Marjorie F. Thole; Wally George; Curtis Fuller; E. Maffey; Harriet E. Berle - 1956

Evanston, IL: Clark Publishing Company, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Evanston, IL: Clark Publishing Company, 1956. The August, 1956 issue of Fate Magazine (issue no. 77) in Raymond A. Palmer's now-legendary paranormal-reporting non-fiction enterprise, which began with, in its first issue, Kenneth Arnold's cover account of flying crescents which "skipped like saucers across a pond", an event which, for whatever reason, kicked off the modern era of UFO events. After that, Fate introduced countless events which remain, to this day, fodder for paranormal documentaries and investigation. 12mo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 130 pp. A Near Fine copy, with a chip starting at the lower left corner of the back cover, and very small scale touch-wear elsewhere (see scans), and of course some modest age-toning to the newsprint paper pages, which remain supple. High Grade, particularly for a periodical which often shows substantial wear from use. See scans. See the scanned image of the contents page for the articles herein, which cover such topics as devil worship, ghosts, spiritualism, animal ESP, strange coincidences, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Malayan Ape-Men, Transient Lunar Phenomena (before they were called that), the Koreshan Unity sect, and of course much, much else, including the standard Departments, always engrossing in themselves, all on various other paranormal or inexplicable phenomena. Interior art and photography is largely uncredited. A piece of paranormal history, and an example of a unique branch of Americana, in very highly collectible condition. Please see scans. l50n