The collected poetical writings of Gray Barker, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.
Behold the Behemouth: The Collected Poems of Gray Barker
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Softcover
Pub date: March 29, 2026
Publisher: Apport Editions
256 pp., 6 x 9 in.
A master storyteller, prankster, and mainstay of the UFO world, Gray Barker (1925-1984) is best known for his bizarre tales of Men in Black, the Mothman, and the Philadelphia Experiment. Barker is widely recognized for his skill as a prose stylist in books like They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers—skill that he developed through a lifelong practice of composing poetry, most of which remained unpublished at the time of his death.
In Behold the Behemouth, Gabriel Mckee (author of the biography The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker) compiles all of Barker’s surviving poetry, from his early experiments as a college student through enigmatic verse about UFOs and other uncanny subjects in his later career.
At turns melancholy, otherworldly, and side-splittingly hilarious, Barker’s poetical writings enrich the picture of midcentury ufology in general and the life of this peculiar literary outsider in particular.