Movies like “The Exorcist” were bringing the diabolical to the big screen, while the pulp paperback horror industry was booming. It’s really not much more than a repetitive recitation and regurgitation of missing plane and ship cases within what is popularly known as “The Bermuda Triangle.” It’s only on the very last page of the book that the author posits his idea that at least some of the disappearances of people and machinery are “a conclusion that they are actually being taken away from our planet for a variety of reasons.” This after stating in a previous paragraph that he considers himself to be a “realist.” No, John Wallace Spencer’s book is a complete waste of time if you are looking for anything substantial in the way of information or entertainment.Īnd yet this is an important book, for no other reason that it is a true cultural artifact of the early 1970s in The United States of America, a reflection of a popular culture that had been overtaken by a fascination with the “occult.” This trend was seemingly everywhere back in the day. “Limbo of the Lost” is an awful book, light on theory, heavy on baseless speculation.
I’m just putting that right there out front, just in case you came here for a typical review. Ok, so look, I’m going to tell you right up front that this is less a book review than it is a memorandum on a particular era in U.S.
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