Fate Magazine - True Stories of the Strange and The Unknown / October, 1955. Nazca Lines; The Planet That Disappeared; Hawaii's Living Fired Goddess; Mexico's Island of Death; Ancestral Memory; Cult of the Manicheans; What Grandma Saw in the Graveyard; Pre-Columbian Christians in America

Evanston, IL: Clark Publishing Company, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Evanston, IL: Clark Publishing Company, 1955. The October, 1955 issue of Fate Magazine (issue no. 67) 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 very, very Near Fine example, just micro-touched at the corners. See scans. Modest age-toning to the newsprint paper pages, which remain supple. In superb condition for a periodical which often shows substantial wear from use. Cover art, uncredited, shows a very fetching Hawaiian Fire Goddess, from one of the lead pieces. See the scanned image of the contents page for all of the articles herein, which cover such topics as the Nazca Lines (early coverage!); The Planet That Disappeared; Hawaii's Living Fired Goddess; Mexico's Island of Death; Ancestral Memory; Cult of the Manicheans; What Grandma Saw in the Graveyard; Pre-Columbian Christians in America; 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. L80