{"product_id":"the-book-of-the-damned-the-original-classic-newly-introduced-by-pen-award-winning-historian-mitch-horowitz-9781722507473","title":"The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic Newly Introduced by Pen Award-Winning Historian Mitch Horowitz","description":"\u003cb\u003eCharles Fort's founding classic of the paranormal newly introduced by esoteric scholar Mitch Horowitz\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e shot like a comet-or \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c\/i\u003e unknown in the sky--across the horizon of a complacent industrial world and its new faith in orthodox science in post-World War I America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor Charles Fort (1874-1932) curated a registry of damned data: reports that philosophical materialism had excluded, such as strange airships in an era before UFOs; unknown beasts; blood, frogs, fishes, and stones falling to earth; floating islands; meteorites containing fossils; tools dropping from the skies; fairy coffins; lights on the moon; and strange figures moving across the sun. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFort revealed how dogmas and orthodoxies once associated with religion were reemerging within triumphant science itself. Whatever authorities could not explain, they condemned, ridiculed, or ignored. But philosopher-compiler Fort illuminated enduring nether-realms that modern man, secure in his manufactured certainties, insisted did not exist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a new introductory essay, \"Philosopher of the Damned,\" historian of the esoteric Mitch Horowitz situates Fort in literary history as a figure who, like Edgar Allan Poe, defined a genre--one so unclassifiable, yet omnipresent, that it bears the author's name: \u003ci\u003eFortean.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMitch further explores how Fort's insights into categories that physicalist science rejected presaged our own era--one of both new mysteries and new modes of insight. \"Fort's work,\" he writes, \"has not only endured into our age, but the outcast intellect influenced our quantum-entangled, binary-coded, multiversed conceptions of reality.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e G\u0026amp;D Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781722507473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Charles Fort","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801249476789,"sku":"9781722507473","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-book-of-the-damned-the-original-classic-newly-introduced-by-pen-award-winning-historian-mitch-horowitz-9781722507473","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}