Felix Fontaine

Felix Fontaine is a largely obscure author whose surviving public profile centers on The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller, a work preserved by Project Gutenberg. The book gathers dream interpretations, lucky numbers, card and dice fortune-telling, palmistry, and other bits of popular occult tradition into one entertaining handbook.

Only a small amount of reliable biographical information was easy to confirm from the sources available here. Project Gutenberg currently lists just one title under the name, which suggests that Fontaine is remembered today more for this single enduring curiosity than for a widely documented literary career.

That gives the work its charm: it feels less like a formal literary monument and more like a window into the amusements, beliefs, and superstitions that once filled everyday reading. For listeners interested in folklore, dream symbolism, and vintage popular culture, Fontaine offers a fun glimpse into that world.