The Mad, Mad World of the 'Unexplained', Paranoia and Conspiracy
Fulcanelli and the Alchemical Revival: The Man Behind the Mystery of the Cathedrals (1990) Genevieve Dubois The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved (2000) Colin and Damon Wilson The Secret History of Lucifer; The Ancient Path to Knowledge and the Real Da Vinci Code (2005) Lynn Picknett Who Are The Illuminati? (2005) Lindsay Porter Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear (2008) Daniel B. and Jason Freeman Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions (2009) Ronald H. Fritze We will start by getting rid of the worst book. The translated tome on Fulcanelli the alchemist is dreadful - poorly written, obscure, poorly translated, poorly edited, pompous, deeply incoherent and providing no context or analysis. It contains some interesting photographs and some less interesting but at least accurately photographed documentation. You are left with an impression of a set of more than a little nutty marginalised figures living from hand to mouth on their eccentric