Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Mark Chorvinsky, founder of Strange magazine, RIP
Mark Chorvinksy, founder of the excellent Strange Magazine, died of Cancer last month. He was 51. From Loren Coleman's obituary:
Link to obituary, Link to Strange MagazineIn the early 1980s, Chorvinsky devoted endless hours categorizing the data collection of the International Fortean Organization, while running his commercial bookstore, Dream Wizards, in suburban Rockville, Maryland. (He) founded and became the editor of Strange Magazine in 1987. His magazine reflected Chorvinsky's journey in Fortean investigations, at first publishing detailed overview articles on phenomena, but then slowly moving to more skeptical and debunking articles on cryptozoological and unexplained subjects, as well as the occasional sympathetic pieces...
One of Mark Chorvinsky's favorite Charles Fort quotations was from New Lands: "There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards."
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