Charles Fort The Man Who Invented the Supernatural

Name: Charles Fort The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
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ISBN: 9781585426409

ISBN-10: 1585426407

ISBN-13: 9781585426409

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jim Steinmeyer

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The seminal biography of the twentieth centurys premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Forta man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean, to describe the unexplained. By the early 1920s, Americans were discovering that the world was a strange place. Charles Fort could demonstrate that it was even stranger than anyone suspected. Frogs fell from the sky. Blood rained from the heavens. Mysterious airships visited the Earth. Dogs talked. People disappeared. Fort asked why, but, even more vexing, he also asked why we werent paying attention. Here is the first fully rendered literary biography of the man who, more than any other figure, would define our idea of the anomalous and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Author's Introduction



But the Damned Will March



Toddy's Nose Bleeds So Readily



Littleness That Was No Longer There



We Wrapped the Piece of Cake to Keep Always



Blue Miles, Green Miles, Yellow Miles



We, Then a Great Famous Man



Anybody Could Write a True Story



Leaping Out of a Window, Head First



"To Work!" Cried Mr. Birtwhistle



X Exists!



A Battle Is About to Be Fought



It Is a Religion



Children Cry for It



The London Triangle



That Frog Would Be God



The World Has Cut Me Out-I Have Cut Myself Out



A Welcoming Hand to Little Frogs and Periwinkles



Not a Bottle of Catsup Can Fall Without Being Noted



Beginning Anywhere



Fall In! Forward! March!


Acknowledgments


Notes and Credits


Index