I went to the library recently. I’d gone to pick up a copy of Project Maldon, a frightening book of Essex-based science fiction. I’d had this book on order for the last three years, but the library’s only copy had been kept out overdue by the previous borrower since 1999. I’d almost given up hope, but I’m a stubborn man and I refused to let the library cancel my place in the hold queue, and finally I was rewarded.
Project Maldon was basically as exceptional as I had hoped, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about. For inside this tome, left inside by whoever it was who had been so reluctant to return it, was a single page, ripped from a magazine, and folded neatly into quarters for use as a book mark. Unfolding it, I slowly realised that in my trembling hand I was holding a genuine page from an original copy of Essex Terror. What issue it had originated in I do not know, but at this moment in time, I am unworried by my ignorance. Linked to below are scans of this slightly mutilated page. Please click on the images to see the full size pages.
