Fate.
The World's Mysteries Explored.
Tue Stories of the strange and Unknown
Other titles: Fate Magazine
1948 Quarterly, 1948-49; bimonthly (irregular), 1950-; monthly, 1979
Evanston, IL, Chicago, IL, Marion, OH, Highland Park, IL, St. Paul, MN.
Editor: Raymond A. Palmer and Curtis Fuller.
Publisher: Clark Publishing Company; Llewellyn Publications.
Succeeds: The Time Traveller (1932-1933); Science Fiction Digest (1933); Amazing Stories (1938-1949); Fantastic Adventures (1939-1949); Imagination (1950)
Succeeded by: Mystic Magazine (1953-1956); Search Magazine (Mystic Magazine renamed, October 1956-1977?); Other Worlds Science Stories (1949-1957); Science Stories (1953-1954); Universe Science Fiction (1953-1955); Flying Saucers from Other Worlds 1957-1958)—>Flying Saucers Magazine of Space Conquest (1958-1976); Space World (1960-1977, Palmer acquired in 1963); The Hidden World Science Fiction Magazine (1961-1964); Forum (1965); Ray Palmer's News Letter (1974-1975)
1/1, spring 1948-current.
25 cents an issue, 128 pp.

An eminent scholar of astrology has pointed out that there was an edition of the journal published on the Isle of Man by Henri Leonard Dor. Having realized the potential of stories like the Shaver Mystery (see the note under Amazing Stories), Palmer (1910-1977) and Curtis Fuller started their own publishing house, Clark Publishing Company, and began to publish Fate. The first issue carried an article by Kenneth Arnold on his encounter with a UFO in 1947 that, with dozens of subsequent articles, created almost single-handedly the UFO furor. Fate went on to publish articles on ghosts, "the secret science behind miracles," "America's White Sun Worshippers" (by Thor Heyerdahl), Charles Fort, the finding of Colonel Fawcett, "Yoga" (by Hereward Carrington), giants in the Americas, Jack the Ripper, the Lost Tribes of Israel, guardian angels, Nikola Tesla, predictions of the death of Rudolph Valentino, "Isis, Goddess of Sex," Houdini, spiritualism, innumerable conspiracy theories, modern druidism, the "Flying Dutchman," numerology, the Lost Tribes of Israel, mysteries of Easter Island, poltergeists, the riddle of the sphinx, sex in the spirit world, King Tut's curse, Sarasvati, sex and hypnotism, etc., etc. - - all with wonderful, mildly titillating covers (which are now online at http://www.sjklein.com/fatemagazine/index.html). Fate, in other words, with its circulation of more than 100,000 essentially created the koiné of modern American popular occultism. Palmer sold Fate to Curtis and his wife, Mary Margaret Fuller, in 1955 and moved to Wisconsin where, as Palmer Publications, he continued to popularize Shaver, UFOs, Oahspe, astrology and prediction, science fiction, sex in heaven, and libertarian politics in a series of small magazines: Mystic, Search, Other Worlds, Flying Saucers, Flying Saucers from Other Worlds, The Hidden World, and Ray Palmer's Forum. On this later history, see Doug Skinner, "Foraging Through Ray Palmer's Forum," online. LOC; NYPL; ZDB: Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol.

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