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HENRY HOLT (1941), Edition: 1941 on title page, Hardcover, 1124 pages
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This scholarly exploration of the borderlands between science and fantasy features four complete works by the redoubtable Charle Fort (1874-1932): The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands. All concern the bizarre phenomena unexplained by traditional science: flying saucers, telekinesis, sudden showers of fish from the sky, stigmata, poltergeists, and spontaneous combustion.
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LibraryThing member b_bankhead
Charles Fort is sui generis, the jedi master of the cataloguers of the weird, the inexplicable, the unkown, the scathingly brutal skunk at the garden party of modern scientism. Half the new age book shop is still spinning it's wheels on the trail Fort blazed so long ago. Almost all the 'true but
Yet actually you don't see much of Fort's books actually in the new age shops these days, maybe because they know that once you've read Fort non of these johny-come-lately's can hold a candle to him and it might depress sales.
This Dover edition gives you what Dover is best at, a good cheap durable book of a classic that has been to long out of print, and this one is a special treat gathering all of Forts books under one cover.
Anyone interested in the paranormal,the unexplained, the weird, the supernatural or just stuff that makes you go huh?... you just HAVE to have this book in your collection.
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weird' genre really should be sending a royalty to Fort's descendants, because they pretty much owe their income to him, and after all this time he is still the best. Yet actually you don't see much of Fort's books actually in the new age shops these days, maybe because they know that once you've read Fort non of these johny-come-lately's can hold a candle to him and it might depress sales.
This Dover edition gives you what Dover is best at, a good cheap durable book of a classic that has been to long out of print, and this one is a special treat gathering all of Forts books under one cover.
Anyone interested in the paranormal,the unexplained, the weird, the supernatural or just stuff that makes you go huh?... you just HAVE to have this book in your collection.
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LibraryThing member DracoRoTor
A tough read, but I love that moment when you realize it's a satire, and really GET that it's a satire through and through.
LibraryThing member ScotDeerie
If you call yourself Fortean (or you want to) this is the first book that you need on your bookshelf. Start here to immerse yourself in the worlds (
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1941
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autographed on inside facing page, "To Otto Feb 20, 1946 Bunny",
Other editions
The Books of Charles Fort by Intro. by Tiffany Thayer (Hardcover)
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