The Book of the Damned

<p><strong>The signature edition of Charles Fort's classic of paranormal discovery &mdash;reset with a new index.</strong></p> <p>Welcome to a record of the <em>Damned</em> wrote by <strong>Charles Fort</strong> in 1919, "I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of the data that Science has excluded."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This stand-alone, handsome edition exposes today's readers to the core work of Fort's extraordinary career &mdash;in which he pushed us to ask: What is out there?</p>