The Book of the Damned
The Book of the Damned, published in 1919, is the first of Charles Fort's collections of what he called damned data: reports that science, in his view, had excluded because they did not fit. Drawing on years of reading in newspapers and scientific journals, Fort marches past his readers a procession of red rains and black rains, falls of frogs, fish, stones and strange substances from the sky, unexplained lights and objects seen in the heavens. Rather than offer a theory, he mocks the explanations given by the authorities and floats outrageous alternatives of his own. His sardonic, aphoristic style gave rise to the adjective Fortean. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Is The Book of the Damned in the public domain?
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What kind of book is The Book of the Damned?
The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort is filed under "Science & Nature" in the Vinteuil library.
