{"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":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Fort | Mitch Horowitz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: G\u0026amp;D Media\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: G\u0026amp;D Media\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: UFOs \u0026amp; Extraterrestrials\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Fort's founding classic of the paranormal newly introduced by esoteric scholar Mitch Horowitz\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\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","brand":"G\u0026D Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47569390043287,"sku":"9781722507473","price":1776.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781722507473.webp?v=1774875101","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-book-of-the-damned-the-original-classic-newly-introduced-by-pen-award-winning-historian-mitch-horowitz-9781722507473","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}