Acknowledgements

 

PRELUDE

1. The Crossroads of Fact and Fiction

 

PART ONE: Precursors of the Myth

2. Science and Pseudoscience in Lovecraft’s Time

3. Science Fiction and Horror before Lovecraft

 

PART TWO: Stories of Gods from Outer Space

4. The Prophet of Providence

5. The Spread of the Lovecraft Circle

6. The UFO Craze in Fact and Fiction

 

PART THREE: From Fiction to Fact

7. The French Connection

8. Charioteer of the Gods

 

INTERLUDE: The View from 1976

9. The Fork in the Road

 

PART FOUR: From Sirius to Orion and Beyond

10. The Sirius Mystery

11. The Orion Mystery

12. Dusting for Fingerprints

13. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

 

PART FIVE: Human Clones from the Twelfth Planet

14. Ancestors from Nibiru

15. Taking off from Nibiru

16. The UFO Cults and Human Cloning

 

CONCLUSION

17. A Modern Myth for Troubled Times

 

Appendix: A Continuum of Belief

 

Selected Bibliography