The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal ExplorationThe 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? |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 25 |
Section 4 | 47 |
Section 5 | 59 |
Section 6 | 79 |
Section 7 | 95 |
Section 8 | 117 |
Section 15 | 253 |
Section 16 | 259 |
Section 17 | 269 |
Section 18 | 297 |
Section 19 | 301 |
Section 20 | 309 |
Section 21 | 337 |
Section 22 | 339 |
Section 9 | 149 |
Section 10 | 161 |
Section 11 | 173 |
Section 12 | 193 |
Section 13 | 209 |
Section 14 | 231 |
Section 23 | 347 |
Section 24 | 353 |
Section 25 | 359 |
Section 26 | 365 |
Section 27 | 373 |
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