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The World's Most Incredible Stories: The Best of Fortean Times
Adam Sisman, editor
Barnes & Noble
Nonfiction, Paranormal/Unexplained Phenomena
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The World's Most Incredible Stories:The Best of Fortean Times

DESCRIPTION: Since 1973, the Fortean Times has brought its readers news of the strange, the scary, and the downright bizarre. This book compiles some of the most memorable articles, from medical mysteries to psychics and UFOs and everything in between.

REVIEW: I don't think I would have bothered picking this up if it hadn't been in the discount section. The articles are thin and lack details - such as dates - that would help authenticate them. Many feel incomplete, and more than one smells like a hoax. That said, there is a fair amount of interesting material in this book, so it wasn't a total waste of money. I was just hoping for more.

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Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings (John Michael Greer, Nonfiction - An alternative approach to unexplainable phenomena)
A Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings (John Keel, Nonfiction - Many unexplained mysteries discussed)
Mysteries of the Unexplained and Reader's Digest Facts and Fallacies (Reader's Digest, Nonfiction - Unsolved mysteries, historical peculiarities, frauds and puzzlers from the ages)
Mysterious Places (Jennifer Westwood, editor, Nonfiction - Historic and prehistoric places that defy explanation)
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved and Unsolved Mysteries: Past and Present (Colin Wilson and Damon Wilson, Nonfiction - Strange phenomena and instances from around the world)

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