It was Charles Fort’s proudest moment when, in 1920, he walked into the New York Public Library and picked up a copy of his just-published work, The Book of the Damned. But when he asked the librarian ...

Charles Fort lived a century ago but is still invoked fairly frequently today: the "inspired clown" (as the screenwriter and playwright Ben Hecht called him) who haunted the New York Public Library, ...

The book in fact was not rare, having been put out by a major publisher a generation earlier, but it possessed a forbidding title: “The Book of the Damned.” The author was Charles Fort. “By the damned ...

Charles Fort (1874–1932), the progenitor of modern supernatural studies, rattled the “iron cage of rationality” in the early 20th century, according to this enthralling account. Buhs (Bigfoot) argues ...