The Book of the Damned The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration [Paperback]

The signature edition of Charles Fort's classic of paranormal discovery--reset with a new index.

Welcome to a record of the damned. By damned, wrote Charles Fort in 1919, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of the data that Science has excluded.

Fort's record of the unknown was one of the first to expose us to visitors from space, monsters, poltergeists, and floating islands. Frogs fall from the sky. Mysterious airships take flight in an age before the airplane. People disappear, reappear, and spontaneously combust.

This stand-alone, handsome edition exposes today's readers to the core work of Fort's extraordinary career--in which he pushed us to ask: What is out there? To me no one in the world has suggested the underlying depths and mysteries and possibilities as has Fort. To me he is simply stupendous. --Theodore Dreiser

Theenfant terribleof science. --The New York Times

The Book of the Damnedwhispered that there was something very wrong with how we thought about the world. Fort deliberately pushed his 'damned facts' on his readers, insisting that science had constructed its convenienttheories only by ignoring those facts that gave us trouble. --Jim Steinmeyer, authorCharles Fort: The Man Who Invented the SupernaturalBorn in Albany, New York, on August 6, 1874,CHARLES FORTmade his life's work the study of unexplained phenomena. After achieving modest success as a short story writer and novelist, Fort began studying anomalous phenomena. In 1919 he published his landmark of paranormal exploration,The Book of the Damned, which influenced generations of writers. Fort moved to London in 1924 to consult the archives at the British Museum, then returned to the United States in 1926. At the New York Public Library he continued his research into spontaneous combustion, space ships, poltergeists, and other experiences and events that had beenls&