This was John Keel’s last book: a collection of his columns for Fate magazine. He had promised to write an introduction, but was too ill to do it. The publisher, Phyllis Galde, asked me if she could use the bio I had written for the Mothman issue of Fortean Times. So, I got their permission, and reworked it to make it more suitable as an introduction. Here’s the first page.
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The comic strip “It’s Fortean” ran in the children’s paper Zuzu from 1992 to 1995. The editor was Beck Underwood; it was her idea. Some of them were also reprinted in the INFO Journal. Here are a few samples.
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A round, on Yeats.
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Dr. Docket contends with a stubborn malingerer in this instructive picture story. And lo, this is how it begins.
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A song to a verse by H. L. Mencken, from his “Knocks and Jollies” column, in the Baltimore Herald, January 20, 1901: “You cannot civilize a jay, or from his belfry pluck the hay, im hinterland…”
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The story of five men in a rudderless boat, told in a stream of anapests with pictures. I’ve done this as a performance, since the text was really meant to be read aloud. Here’s the first page:
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Four songs for voice and piano, on verses from the picture books of Kate Greenaway. I wrote them in 2002. The verses are:
1. The Boat Sails Away (Kate Greenaway)
2. Dirty Jim (Jane and Ann Taylor)
3. Poor Dicky’s Dead (Kate Greenaway)
4. The Butterfly (Jane and Ann Taylor)
Here’s a snippet of the first one:
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This brisk barnstormer was part of my show of the same name, back in 1984.
