The Book of the Damned

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?