Based on an incredible true episode of World War II history, Paul Malmont’s new novel is a rollicking blend of fact and fiction about the men and women who were recruited to defeat the Nazis and ended up creating the future.In 1943, when the United States learns that Germany is on the verge of a deadly innovation that could tip the balance of the war, the government turns to an unlikely source for help: the nation’s top science fiction writers. Installed at a covert military lab within the Philadelphia Naval Yard are the most brilliant of these young visionaries. The unruly band is led by Robert Heinlein, the dashing and complicated master of the genre. His “Kamikaze Group,” which includes the ambitious genius Isaac Asimov, is tasked with transforming the wonders of science fiction into science fact and unlocking the secrets to invisibility, death rays, force fields, weather control, and other astounding phenomena—and finding it harder than they ever imagined.When a German spy washes ashore near the abandoned Long Island ruins of a mysterious energy facility, the military begins to fear that the Nazis are a step ahead of Heinlein’s group. Now the oddball team, joined by old friends from the Pulp Era including L. Ron Hubbard (court-martialed for attacking Mexico), must race to catch up. The answers they seek may be locked in the legendary War of Currents, which was fought decades earlier between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. As the threat of an imminent Nazi invasion of America grows more and more possible, events are set in motion that just may revolutionize the future—or destroy it—while forcing the writers to challenge the limits of talent, imagination, love, destiny, and even reality itself.Blazing at breathtaking speed from forgotten tunnels deep beneath Manhattan to top-secret battles in the North Pacific, and careening from truth to pulp and back again, The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown is a sweeping, romantic epic—a page-turning rocket ship ride through the history of the future.

With an introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller.Charles Fort devoted his life to attacking one of the modern world's most sacred cows: traditional science, with all its authority and all its presuppositions. His method was simple: he collected and published reliable accounts of events that science cannot explain—colored rains, living things such as frogs falling to earth, unknown objects in space and in the oceans, people who have mysteriously appeared and disappeared, and a whole catalogue of other curiosities. His boldness, imagination and conviction earned him the admiration of many of his most famous contemporaries, including Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Alexander Woollcott, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Even today scientists explore the implications of Fortean material.This book is the first full-scale biography of Charles Fort, a lively, sympathetic, and thought-provoking portrait of a strange and brilliant man."Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts." So Charles Fort wrote and so he believed. And out of this believe came—The Book of the Damned, Lo!, New Lands, Wild Talents—books filled with highly credible reports of events that the octopus sought to avoid: red snows, blue rains, and showers of dead leaves in April; heavenly bodies, individuals, and even entire races disappearing without a trace; wheels of light in the ocean, unfamiliar objects in the sky, and invisible forces in his own apartment."I do not know how to find out anything new without being offensive," this gentle, shy, but fiercely determined man once said. The history of science is full of such "offensive" men, from Galileo to Velikovsky. And, as this perceptive, comprehensive biography shows, the data Fort gathered may lead us all to new frontiers that can now scarcely be imagined.

Revealing the strange, weird and wonderful stories sent in by the readers of Fortean Times, this MagBook is a haunting collection of real life stories to have featured in the magazine over the past 35 years. From living in haunted houses to witnessing rains of frogs, no area of the paranormal remains uncovered in this fascinating publication.From terrifying ghostly encounters, outlandish apparitions, telephone calls from the other side and mysterious animals, to startling premonitions and other tales of unexpected, this spooky MagBook contains enough real-life tales of the unexplained to make you question any doubts about paranormal activity you may harbour.

Fully illustrated with over 200 photographs and drawings collection of incredible stories.

This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume.

• The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang
• Magic and Mystery by Alfred Thompson
• Reincarnation and the Law of Karma by William Walker Atkinson
• The Urantia Papers by Unknown
• Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism by A. Alpheus
• The Secret of the Saucers by Ofreo M. Angelucci
• Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing by William Walker Atkinson
• Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by William Walker Atkinson
• Astral Projection, A Complete Guide by Unknown Author
• The Best Psychic Stories by Various Authors
• Telepathy, Genuine and Fraudulent by W. W. Baggally
• Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould
• Beyond The Five Senses by L. M. Bazett
• After-Death Communications by L. M. Bazett
• Ghosts in Solid Form by Gambier Bolton
• More About Life in the World Unseen by Anthony Borgia
• Here and Hereafter by Anthony Borgia
• Life in the World Unseen by Anthony Borgia
• The Omega File by Branton
• Adventurings in the Psychical by H. Addington Bruce
• Majestic 12 and the Secret Government by William Cooper
• Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World by Jeremiah Curtin
• Pheneas Speaks by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The History of Spiritualism, Vol. I by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The History of Spiritualism, Vol. II by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The New Revelation by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Vital Message by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Spirit Land by Samuel B. Emmons
• Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft by Henry Ridgely Evans
• My Trip to Mars by William Ferguson
• Mysterious Psychic Forces by Camille Flammarion
• Death and its Mystery by Camille Flammarion
• India to the Planet Mars by Theodore Flournoy
• Wild Talents by Charles Fort
• The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
• Lo! by Charles Fort
• New Lands by Charles Fort
• A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands by Franchezzo
• Wisdom of the Ages by George A. Fuller
• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
• In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn
• Raymond; or, Life and Death by Oliver Lodge
• There is No Death by Florence Marryatt
• Oahspe by John Ballou Newbrough
• The Voice of Venus by Ernest L. Norman
• A Dweller on Two Planets by Frederick S. Oliver
• The Life Beyond the Veil, Volume 1 by G. Vale Owen
• The Dead Have Never Died by Edward C. Randall
• Selestor’s Men of Atlantis by Clara Iza von Ravn
• The Rebyt on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward Ruppelt
• The Candle of Vision by George William Russell
• I Remember Lemuria and The Return of Sathanas by Richard S. Shaver
• Mental Radio by Upton Sinclair
• True Irish Ghost Stories by St. John D. Seymour, Harry L. Neligan
• The Blue Island: Experiences of a New Arrival Beyond the Veil by W. T. Stead
• The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Ghost World by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
• The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants by Eros Urides
• Modern Magic by Maximilian Schele de Vere
• Gone West: Three Narratives of After-Death Experiences by J. S. M Ward
• Thirty Years Among the Dead by Carl Wickland

AND MANY MORE...

“There’s no such thing as coincidence.” The grandfather of alien abduction and UFO sightings provides us with a tremendous record of unusual occurrences reported and documented all over the world. Examples of the odd phenomena include the occult, supernatural, and paranormal. Reported events include teleportation (a term Fort is generally credited with coining); poltergeist events; falls of frogs, fishes, inorganic materials of an amazing range; unaccountable noises and explosions; spontaneous fires; levitation; ball lightning (a term explicitly used by Fort); unidentified flying objects; unexplained disappearances; giant wheels of light in the oceans; and animals found outside their normal ranges. Fort was first person to explain alien abduction and was an early proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, specifically suggesting that strange lights or object sighted in the skies might be alien spacecraft.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion).FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARDAs the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death.Yet it is also far more than that.Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity.Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it—and like none you’ve ever read before.Praise for Devolution“Delightful . . . [A] tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“The story is told in such a compelling manner that horror fans will want to believe and, perhaps, take the warning to heart.”—Booklist (starred review)