Charles Forth (Book order)

Charles Forth Book order

January 1, 1916

Charles Fort was a Dutch-American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena, often characterized as a satirist deeply skeptical of claims to ultimate knowledge, particularly from scientists. His distinctive writing style blended mocking humor with penetrating insight and calculated outrageousness. Fort explored how unconscious assumptions can hinder scientific objectivity, noting that those with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced than those with a need not to.

The Book of the Damned

400 pages
14 hours of reading

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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?