Book of the Damned
First of the famous four Books of Charles Fort
(18741932) that challenged conventional divisions of thought
Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology 5th Ed. Book of the Damned
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and science by collating and interpreting phenomena that were
usually denied, explained away, or ignored. The damned described
by Fort as the data that science has excluded, referred
to a wide variety of scientific anomalies. The Book of the Damned
was first published in 1919. It was followed by New Lands, 1923;
Lo! 1931; and Wild Talents, 1932. A complete collected edition,
The Books of Charles Fort, was published in 1941.
Sources
Fort, Charles. The Books of Charles Fort. New York Henry
Holt, 1941.
