They were married on October 26, 1896, at an Episcopal church. When he returned home, he was nursed by Anna Filing, whom he had known since childhood. He travelled through the western United States, Scotland, and England, until becoming ill in Southern Africa. Īt age 18, Fort left New York to embark on a world tour to "put some capital in the bank of experience". An autodidact, his considerable knowledge of the world was due mainly to his extensive personal reading. Although Fort was described as curious and intelligent, he was not a good student. Fort developed a strong sense of independence during his early years.Īs a young adult, Fort wanted to be a naturalist, collecting sea shells, minerals, and birds. Fort's biographer, Damon Knight, suggested that his distrust of authority began in his treatment as a child. His father, a grocer, was an authoritarian, and in his unpublished autobiography Many Parts, Fort mentions the physical abuse he endured from his father. "Fortean" phenomena are events which seem to challenge the boundaries of accepted scientific knowledge, and the Fortean Times (founded as The News in 1973 and renamed in 1976) investigates such phenomena.įort was born in Albany, New York, in 1874, of Dutch ancestry. įort's collections of scientific anomalies, including The Book of the Damned (1919), influenced numerous science-fiction writers with their skepticism and as sources of ideas.
His work continues to inspire admirers, who refer to themselves as "Forteans", and has influenced some aspects of science fiction. Fort's books sold well and are still in print. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Complete with a full subject index, here is the definitive Fort anthology for our times.Charles Hoy Fort (Aug– May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. Now, Fort's classic investigations are newly collected with a preface by biographer Jim Steinmeyer. These are the works that moved novelist Theodore Dreiser to write: To me no one in the world has suggested the underlying depths and mysteries and possibilities as has Fort. Mysterious airships in an age before flight. These are cult hero Charles Forts defining records of bizarre, haunting, strange, and inexplicable facts for which science cannot account: Frogs falling from the skies.
Here are the four books that invented our understanding of the paranormal. It features Forts complete, unabridged text and a subject index. This Encyclopedia Forteana anthologizes the cult heros four classic works on the strange, the unexplained, and the just plain weird: The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents, and New Lands.
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