The Book of the Damned
Autor Charles Forten Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 sep 2009
Here are the four books that invented our understanding of the paranormal. These are cult hero Charles Fortas defining records of bizarre, haunting, strange, and inexplicable afactsa for which science cannot account: Frogs falling from the skies. Mysterious airships in an age before flight. Monsters. Poltergeists. Floating islands. Teleportation (a term Fort invented).
These are the works that moved novelist Theodore Dreiser to write: aTo me no one in the world has suggested the underlying depths and mysteries and possibilities as has Fort. To me he is simply stupendous.a
Now, Fortas classic investigations are newly collected with a preface by biographer Jim Steinmeyer. Complete with a full subject index, here is the definitive Fort anthology for our times.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781438524467
ISBN-10: 1438524463
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Book Jungle
ISBN-10: 1438524463
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Book Jungle
Descriere
This work focuses on paranormal activity including UFOs, strange weather patterns, unusual inorganic materials from the sky, the strange disappearances of people under odd circumstances, and the existence of mythological creatures studied in cryptozoology.
Notă biografică
Born in Albany, New York, on August 6, 1874, CHARLES FORT made his life's work the study of unexplained phenomena. After achieving modest success as a short story writer and novelist, Fort began studying anomalous phenomena. In 1919 he published his landmark of paranormal exploration, The Book of the Damned, which influenced generations of writers. Fort moved to London in 1924 to consult the archives at the British Museum, then returned to the United States in 1926. At the New York Public Library he continued his research into spontaneous combustion, space ships, poltergeists, and other experiences and events that had been written off by science. Fort published three additional books on the unexplained: New Lands (1923), Lo! (1931), and Wild Talents (1932). Though his work attracted controversy, Fort was celebrated in The New York Times as "the enfant terrible of science" and he counted novelist Theodore Dreiser among his closest friends and literary admirers. Fort's name was made into an adjective--fortean--to describe strange phenomena. A lasting influence on the evolution of science fiction as well as science, Fort stands as one of the most fascinating and polarizing figures in all of Americana. He died on May 3, 1932, in New York City.