Monday, February 2, 2009

Bermuda Triangle Bibliography

OK, here's a list of books, magazines, newspapers, websites, and the like I'll cite. I'll amend it as needed.


Berlitz, Charles. The Bermuda Triangle. New York: Avon, 1974.

Arch-sensationalist.


Without a Trace. New York: Doubleday, 1977.

Arch-sensationalist.


Chaplin, James Paul. Unknown Horizon: Page Bryant, Psychic in the Devil's Triangle. New York: Zebra, 1976.

Never trust a book that can't spell its own title. Or didn't Psychotic in the Devil's Triangle fit on the cover?



Kooky collection.


Gaddis, Vincent H. Invisible Horizons. New York: Ace, 1965.

The book that started it all. Gaddis collected mysterious yarns from Fort, Gould, and company and brought them to the attention of the New Age hippies.


— "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle," Argosy, February 1964, p. 28–29, 116–118.


Gould, Rupert T. More Oddities and Enigmas. Secaucus: University, 1973.


Group, David. The Evidence for the Bermuda Triangle. Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian, 1984.

Essential reading. Good accounts of many cases, though a bit credulous at times. Tends to treat historical sources and obvious fiction as equally valid sources.


Hocking, Charles. Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1969.

Valuable source for the serious researcher.


Jefferys, C. P. Beauchamp. "The Case of the Crewless Brig Sea Bird — 1750," Newport History, winter 1973, vol. 46, no. 149, p. 1.


Kusche, Lawrence David. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery — Solved. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1986.

Essential reading. Debunks quite a few cases. Tends to be skeptical.


Landsburg, Alan. Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle. New York: Warner, 1978.


MacGregor, Rob, and Bruce Gernon. The Fog: A Never Before Published Theory of the Bermuda Triangle Phenomenon. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2005.

The theory isn't bad, but the book gets a bit cozy with the mystics.


Nash, Jay Robert. Among the Missing. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

Admits to being anecdotal.


Quasar, Gian J. Into the Bermuda Triangle. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Today's leading mystic and sensationalist.




Sanderson, Ivan T. Invisible Residents. Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2005.


Simpson, Bland. Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering. Chapel Hill, NC: U of NC, 2002.

A good book and a fun read.


Singer, Steven D. Shipwrecks of Florida: A Comprehensive Listing. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1998.


Snow, Edward Rowe. Incredible Mysteries and Legends of the Sea. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1967.

A classic, though Snow is more a storyteller than a scientist.


Mysteries and Adventures Along the Atlantic Coast. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948.

A classic, though Snow is more a storyteller than a scientist.


Mysterious Tales of the New England Coast. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961.

A classic, though Snow is more a storyteller than a scientist.


Spencer, John Wallace. Limbo of the Lost. New York: Bantam, 1973.

Pretty average.




Thomas Jeffrey, Adi-Kent. The Bermuda Triangle. New York: Warner, 1973.

Pure fiction.


They Dared the Devil's Triangle. New York: Warner, 1975.

Pure fiction.


Wilkins, Harold T. Strange Mysteries of Time and Space. New York: Ace, 1958.

Kooky and funny.


Winer, Richard. The Devil's Triangle. New York: Bantam, 1974.

Quite rational, but largely fictional.


The Devil's Triangle 2. New York: Bantam, 1975.

Quite rational, but largely fictional.