My book arrived today. The Prince and the Paranormal: the Psychic Bloodline of the Royal Family. A brief glance shows that it's mainly about Prince Charles, but also claims that his immediate ancestors have had dalliances with the occult, including the Queen Mother allegedly communicating with her late husband via a spiritualist medium. If nothing else, it should make for an entertaining read.
Here's the bad part. I ordered it through an online out-of-print book service. You know, the websites that catalogue out of print books from a variety of sources, so you can easily shop for the best price. There were several sellers that had this book, and I ended up getting it from an outfit called A-Albionic. Weird name, but what do I care, right? All I want is a book.
Well the book arrives today, accompanied by a hefty catalog. The full name of A-Albionic turns out to be "A-Albionic Consulting and Research: The Overt and Covert Organs of the Vatican and British Empires are Locked in Mortal Combat for Control of the World." Really.
The catalog is chock full of information. For example, I always thought they were called "right wing conspiracy theorists," but apparently they prefer to be known as "right wing conspiracy researchers." Also, did you know that Prince Charles is the anti-Christ? I never knew that! Neither did I know that the Rhodes Scholar program is really a plot to return control of the US to the British Empire.
A typical book description: "Very important information on the founding of the Grand Lodge in England in 1717 indicating a take-over by the Judeo-Masonic-Protestant British Crown of a nominally Catholic, marginally heretical underground descending from the Templars for conversion into a world-wide anti-Vatican intelligence apparatus."
I am not making this up.
I can't believe I gave these people my name and mailing address. I bet I'll be receiving their catalog for the rest of my life. How was I supposed to know? They seemed like all the other out-of-print booksellers, only a little cheaper!
Worst of all, the catalog contains a book by someone I know. The Illuminoids: Secret Societies and Political Paranoia by Neal Wilgus. I remember Neal from FreFanZine, "the only libertarian sci-fi apa in the entire friggin universe!", a sort-of zine where our participation briefly overlapped. I guess I have to stop snickering at the weirdos now; I'm practically one of them. Egad.
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