“Things”, 1967, Ivan T. Sanderson
“What’s that book about?”
“You know…stuff.”
Actually, these are some of the chapter titles:
- Globsters
- Whatchamacallits
- The Maricoxi
- The Wudewasa
- UFO Nests
- Ohio Overfly
- Flying Rocks
You know you’re in for some serious discussion of hard science when you’ve got chapters about flying rocks.
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I am quite sure that were I to google The Maricoxi or The Wudewasa I would get a better idea what they are, but I think I am happier knowing just that they are Things.
I really want to know what Ohio Overfly is
“I really want to know what Ohio Overfly is”
Obviously nothing even closely related to a Spanish Fly. Considering the vagueness of their titles, I wonder how they’d categorize truely inexplictable stuff of LoveCraftian nature. “A huge subterrean being capable of wrecking mankind’s dreams if it ever awoke” would be filled under “miscelanous”.
I used to read stuff like this, as a kid. A lot easier to believe in the unexplained (and imaginary) then.
I, too, want to know what the Ohio Overfly is.
Does anyone else look at that cover and hear the voice of a 80s-action movie Russian villains demanding his henchman to bring him Sanderson? No? I’m the only one who reads that as “I VANT SANDERSON!”? Tragic.
Also, given context, Ohio Overfly is likely a UFO that… flew over Ohio. Although I prefer the idea of a mastermind fly that rules all the rotten-meat-and-shit eating in the Buckeye State.
I’m all about the super-criminals today.
I have a copy of this book I found at a Habitat For Humanity awhile back. It’s pretty great. The two chapters I read had more than half its sentences ending in exclamation marks. As in “They discounted the flying rocks theory! But they’re wrong! What a bunch of nutcases!!!”. It seemed to have a thick layer of sarcasm concerning anyone doubting the existence of Globsters, Whatchamacallits, etc.
Some cryptozoology blog mentioned the author’s passing a year ago and the picture they ran pretty much looked like how I thought he’d look. He looked happy and loopy.