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The Bord's latest compendium is a well-arranged and tightly packed collection of the vast range of fortean events which have been recorded in these islands between 1885 and 1985. It is difficult to find any significant case which has been omitted, and as is the case with all the Bord 's books it is well illustrated, both with archive photographs and prints, and original material from Colin Bord's camera. It seems almost unnecessary to describe the range of the book in any detail - if you can think of a fortean phenomenon, it's here: trapped toads to teleportations, poltergeists to pumas, UFOs to underwater monsters. Of particular value are chronological and geographical listings of all the mysteries included, All in all an extremely valuable reference guide,
And yet... and yet... There is some thing curiously unsatisfying about this book, Is it that we've seen it all before, f rom the Bords and in the pages of Fortean Times and even Magonia? Is it that after ten or so books and more than twenty years 'in the business' we were rather hoping they would be moving away from listings and starting to put the wide range of phenomena they have studied into some sort of context? Is it that we are beginning to think that a new book f rom the Bords is rather less of an event than it once was, and rather more a routine part of a publisher's corporate programme? I do hope not
- John Rimmer, from Magonia 26, June 1987.
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