ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

– For their generous help, my thanks go to the SF fan historians and archivists who went out of their way to preserve the correspondence, images, fanzines and reports of the day. Chief among those are Rob Hansen’s FIAWOL archive: www.fiawol.org.uk/ FanStuff/; David Langford for his Ansible archive: http://news. ansible.co.uk/; Greg Pickersgill for his Gostak archive: www.gostak. demon.co.uk/; Peter Weston for permission to use images from Mike Rosenblum in his collection, and for his Relapse: http://efanzines. com/Prolapse/; Philip Turner for permission to use images from Harry Turner’s Footnotes to Fandom archive: www.htspweb. co.uk/fandf/romart/het/footnotes. htm; and Jill Godfrey for permission to use Harold Gottliffe’s photos from the above sites.

1 E Dingwall, KM Goldney and Trevor H Hall, The Haunting of Borley Rectory: A Critical Survey of the Evidence (1956). Nandor Fodor, ‘Was Harry Price a Fraud?’, Tomorrow vol 4, no 2 (1956); reproduced on the Harry Price website at www. harrypricewebsite.co.uk/Borley/ PriceatBorley/fodor-hbr-review.htm

2 At least one commentator noted that Herbert “had one of those names” that people muddle; to this day, he is often cited as ‘Herbert Benson’.

3 Written in 1954, first published in Ethel Lindsay’s Bletherings #4, 1972.

4 Malcolm Fergusson, ‘The Lost Club Journal’, at http://homepages. pavilion.co.uk/tartarus/shiel.html

5 An excellent portrait of Sykes is Anne Ruby, ‘The Making of an Atlantean Scholar’, Venture Inward (July/Aug 1999), pp22-25, 42-43 at www.seachild.net/sykes/; See FF9, ‘The Pubs at the End of the Universe’, FT320:48-50.

6 Harry Turner, ‘Footnotes to Fandom: Remembering Eric Frank Russell’, at www.htspweb.co.uk/ fandf/romart/het/footnotes/efr.htm; also FF2 ‘Rocket Boys’, FT309:5051; Truax: www.htspweb.co.uk/ fandf/romart/het/footnotes/1938. htm#truax

7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bernard_Quatermass

8 See FT309:50-51.